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If only Vivien Leigh had stayed in England, that part would have been mine.


Joan Bennett

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CHRIS PALMER If he had stayed, he would have starved in other ways.
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MICHAEL KORDA I adore Bette Davis and Vivien Leigh, but more because they were good actresses. That's what mak...
IMELDA STAUNTON When I make films, I work with Mike Leigh, who's the most prolific director in England.
LESLEY MANVILLE We could have been the greatest love story ever told.

If only you'd stayed in character.
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CLIFF DANLEY I'd probably have been wealthier if I had stayed with law, but pretty miserable doing it.
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SCOTT WILLIAMSON We would have had a whole helicopter full of food if you had stayed back! Hey, y'all. I did my best.
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TRICK DADDY It was kind of hard. If I stayed back he still would have had a shot on me.
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JAMES FARRIOR The offense would have been geared toward them if they stayed. Maybe we could have still made this r...
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JOAN CRAWFORD You look at Gone With the Wind, how right Vivian Leigh was for that. Don't know if that would ha...
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VIVIEN LEIGH I've always been mad about cats.
VIVIEN LEIGH Dear Lord, I'm so grateful I'm still loved.
VIVIEN LEIGH Shaw is like a train. One just speaks the words and sits in one's place. But Shakespeare is like...
VIVIEN LEIGH You know the passage where Scarlett voices her happiness that her mother is dead, so that she can...
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VIVIEN LEIGH I loved fencing and dancing and elocution.
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VIVIEN LEIGH I need something truly beautiful to look at in hotel rooms.
VIVIEN LEIGH It's much easier to make people cry than to make them laugh
VIVIEN LEIGH Shaw is like a train. One just speaks the words and sits in one's place. But Shakespeare is like bat...
VIVIEN LEIGH Every single night I'm nervous. You never know how the audience is going to react.
VIVIEN LEIGH Streetcar is a most wonderful, wonderful play.
VIVIEN LEIGH My birth sign is Scorpio and they eat themselves up and burn themselves out. I swing between happine...
VIVIEN LEIGH I know I am right for Scarlett. I can convince Mr. Selznick.
VIVIEN LEIGH I have just made out my will and given all the things I have and many that I haven't.
VIVIEN LEIGH I'm not afraid to die.
VIVIEN LEIGH I think any classical training in the theatre is of enormous value.
VIVIEN LEIGH Classical plays require more imagination and more general training to be able to do. That's why ...
VIVIEN LEIGH I don't know what that Method is. Acting is life, to me, and should be.
VIVIEN LEIGH I always know my lines.
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VIVIEN LEIGH I'm not young. What's wrong with that?
VIVIEN LEIGH Sometimes I dread the truth of the lines I say. But the dread must never show.
VIVIEN LEIGH I'm a Scorpio, and Scorpios eat themselves out and burn themselves up like me.
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VIVIEN LEIGH Life is too short to work so hard.
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RHYS IFANS What if I had stayed?
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JOAN JETT I'm having fun opening up. Sort of struggling to get the audience into it. It's good. It mak...
JOAN JETT With plastic surgery, the general anesthetic is like a black-velvety sleep, and that's what deat...
JOAN RIVERS If you have an ounce of common sense and one good friend you don't need an analyst.
JOAN CRAWFORD My husband wanted to be cremated. I told him I'd scatter his ashes at Neiman Marcus - that way, ...
JOAN RIVERS When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something... but that it is a moral...
JOAN DIDION Isn't that what we come into politics for? To say to people: 'You can do it, too - there is ...
JOAN KIRNER People think of us as an information distributor because that's how they relate to the Internet....
JOAN BLADES