Vivien Leigh Quotes
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I actually think I have an audience member's sensibility about going to the movies.
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Growing up on a farm was the best. I remember loving that expanse of space. The sky at night was so clear, I could see every star.
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When you are performing in theater, you feel so connected to your audience. It's exhilarating!
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I did a sitcom with Desi Arnaz Jr. in a pilot called 'Whacked Out.' We were bombing, and Lucille Ball grabbed the mic and started berating the audience.
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I think lots of actors are very nervous and shy. I know lots of them who are, and some who aren't of course.
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I've been quite fascinated by the relative insignificance of human existence, the shortness of life. We might as well be a letter in a word in a sentence on a page in a book in a library in a city in one country in this enormous universe! And that kind of fear and insignificance has kept me awake at night.
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I try and get about eight hours of sleep every single night. And I like to think that I drink more water than anyone, ever.
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My audience has really become a very diverse group of people. It's not just 15-year-old girls. That's kind of what allows me to write from all the different places I want to write from.
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You as an audience can look at these things as films, but I remember them as social experiences.
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When your life is as precious as all our lives are, then it needs to be kept precious and looked after and treated well. And that is not something we should be sharing with a wider audience.
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I don't have a director. The audience directs me.
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Nobody ever worked as hard as my father. My father averaged maybe four hours of sleep at night, and when you're a kid, you don't realize that. The man was tired. He was tired.
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We had to go all through the night thinking that our baby was dead. When God showed him to us, he wasn't dead, he was sucking his thumb. God had him safe and sound. He is a miracle. He is so healthy, so perfect, and God has really, really blessed us.
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I wish I didn't have to perform 'Iron Man' every night.
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I am 90. I can work day or night. I'm the same guy, but the polls show the effect of age. That's the issue.
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I don't dream at night; life has given me the stuff I need to be able to dream during the day. I'm very lucky.
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Some actors get fired up by the sound of the audience. I just want to retreat.
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I play a percussion instrument, not a musical saw; it needs no amplification. Where it's needed, they put a microphone in front of the bass drum. But, I don't think it's necessary to play that way every night.
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Geraldo has been in Lebanon. He has done some excellent reporting out of there, and of course, we now know by virtue of the president's speech on Tuesday night that the terrorist organizations that operate in that area are now on the list.
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My mother doesn't cook; my grandmother didn't cook. Her kids were raised by servants. They would joke about Sunday night dinner. It was the only night she would cook, and apparently it was just horrendous, like scrambled eggs and Campbell's soup.
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The audience to me has changed only cosmetically but their love, care and profound respect towards me is the same as it was before.
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I think theatre reminds us what we're doing as actors, because every night and every matinee day, you have an audience telling you what's working and what's not. And that's very good for us as actors to hone our skills.
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Every single night I'm nervous. You never know how the audience is going to react.
