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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You know it's funny that none of the regular late-night shows now use guest hosts the way Johnny did. No one talks about it much, but it's curious that they don't do it. They would each have to be asked the reason why they don't.
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The moment I said I'd finished a book, I knew what would happen. There would be a bidding war, and I would end up with someone who'd got the fattest wallet, who had bought it because I'd written Harry Potter. That would have been why.
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The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else.
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Every day I searched for the star That never was in the sky Now I see that star is on the earth
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We do not have to be ashamed of what we are. As sentient beings we have wonderful backgrounds. These backgrounds may not be particularly enlightened or peaceful or intelligent. Nevertheless, we have soil good enough to cultivate; we can plant anything in it.
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Every single night I'm nervous. You never know how the audience is going to react.
