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Life is too short to work so hard.

Vivien Leigh was a British actress. She won two Academy Awards for Best Actress, for her definitive performances as Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind and Blanche DuBois in the film version of A Streetcar Named Desire.

Actress | British

Born: 1913-11-05 in Darjeeling, British India

Died: July 8, 1967 in London, England

English people don't have very good diction. In France you have to pronounce very particularly and clearly, and learning French at an early age helped me enormously.

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People think that if you look fairly reasonable, you can't possibly act, and as I only care about acting, I think beauty can be a great handicap.

Vivien Leigh

My parents were French and Irish and our family even has Spanish blood-and I do so love the United States and consider myself part American.

Vivien Leigh

You know the passage where Scarlett voices her happiness that her mother is dead, so that she can't see what a bad girl Scarlett has become? Well, that's me.

Vivien Leigh

Classical plays require more imagination and more general training to be able to do. That's why I like playing Shakespeare better than anything else.

Vivien Leigh

English people don't have very good diction. In France you have to pronounce very particularly and clearly, and learning French at an early age helped me enormously.

Vivien Leigh

I never found accents difficult, after learning languages.

Vivien Leigh

Life is too short to work so hard.

Vivien Leigh

I've always been mad about cats.

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pet

Sometimes I dread the truth of the lines I say. But the dread must never show.

Vivien Leigh

Life is too short to work so hard.

Vivien Leigh

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