Quotes by Olivia De Havilland - Page 1

One must take what comes, with laughter.
Olivia De Havilland / Film Actress
Aging
Laughter
Personality
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I don't feel the cold. It's my British blood!
Olivia De Havilland / Film Actress
Blood
British
Cold
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Of course we fight. What sisters don't battle?
Olivia De Havilland / Film Actress
Battle
Courses
Fighting
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I would watch anything with Meryl Streep in it.
Olivia De Havilland / Film Actress
Meryl
Meryl Streep
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I was just a mini-star when we did 'Gone With the Wind.'
Olivia De Havilland / Film Actress
Gone
Stars
Wind
Gone With The Wind
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There are no words to describe my feelings for Errol Flynn.
Olivia De Havilland / Film Actress
Describe
No Words
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It's hard to keep on being civil when they ask you such annoying questions.
Olivia De Havilland / Film Actress
Annoying
Asks
Hard
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The TV business is soul crushing, talent destroying and human being destroying.
Olivia De Havilland / Film Actress
Destroying
Crushing
Human Being
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The TV business is soul-crushing, talent-destroying and human being-destroying.
Olivia De Havilland / Film Actress
Crush
Soul
Tvs
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I'm all for typewriters, with instant carbon copies, and seeing films in cinemas.
Olivia De Havilland / Film Actress
Carbon
Cinema
Copies
Film
Instant
Typewriters
Cinemas
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I loved France, although I initially thought they were stubborn for always speaking French.
Olivia De Havilland / Film Actress
France
Stubborn
Initially
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I'm certainly relishing the idea of living a century. Can you imagine that? What an achievement.
Olivia De Havilland / Film Actress
Achievement
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We were like a stock company at Warners. We didn't know any of the stars from the other studios.
Olivia De Havilland / Film Actress
Stars
Studios
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There certainly is such a thing as screen chemistry, although I don't believe you find it frequently.
Olivia De Havilland / Film Actress
Believe
Chemistry
Screens
Although
Certainly
Frequently
Screen
Such A Thing
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My sister has decided to become an actress too. It has ruined the close-knittedness of our family life.
Olivia De Havilland / Film Actress
Actresses
Family Life
My Sister
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I read the Scriptures at the American Cathedral on Christmas and Easter; that's it. It's a task I love.
Olivia De Havilland / Film Actress
Christmas
Easter
Scripture
Tasks
Cathedral
Scriptures
Task
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All of Hollywood was convinced that 'Gone with the Wind' would be a colossal disaster and rather hoped it would be.
Olivia De Havilland / Film Actress
Colossal
Disaster
Wind
Gone With The Wind
Hoped
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I was quite thin, and I didn't have to worry until I had my appendix out and a mysterious metabolic change occurred.
Olivia De Havilland / Film Actress
Appendix
Mysterious
Worry
Occurred
Thin
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What bothered me was playing one-dimensional parts in films which were really about, 'Boy Meets Girl,' 'Will Boy Get Girl?'
Olivia De Havilland / Film Actress
Bothered
One-Dimensional
Meets
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I was naturalized right before Pearl Harbor. Nine days later, I would have been classified as an enemy alien. I might have been sent to a camp.
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Enemy
Nine
Alien
Camp
Classified
Harbor
Pearl
Pearl Harbor
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I wanted to be what my high-school civics and history teacher thought of as a good American. That automatically involved taking an interest in government.
Olivia De Havilland / Film Actress
Government
Teacher
Involved
School
Automatically
Taking
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I was shocked and saddened to learn of the passing of my sister, Joan Fontaine ... and I appreciate the many kind expressions of sympathy that we have received.
Olivia De Havilland / Film Actress
Appreciate
Expression
Niece
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I don't need a fantasy life as once I did. That is the life of the imagination that I had a great need for. Films were the perfect means for satisfying that need.
Olivia De Havilland / Film Actress
Imagination
Fantasy
Mean
Perfect
Satisfying
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I have the idea that anyone who has ever heard my name has the distinct impression that I was put under the sod years ago just before they buried Lillian Russell.
Olivia De Havilland / Film Actress
Buried
Impression
Sod
Distinct
Russell
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Famous people feel that they must perpetually be on the crest of the wave, not realising that it is against all the rules of life. You can't be on top all the time, it isn't natural.
Olivia De Havilland / Film Actress
Famous
Natural
People
Realising
Wave
Life Time Must
Rules
Life Time Famous
Crest
Famous People
Perpetually
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How many women in this world are served breakfast in bed every morning by a gorgeous young man? I am. So how do I feel about older age? Crazy about it! Wouldn't trade it for anything!
Olivia De Havilland / Film Actress
Breakfast
Gorgeous
Young Man
Served
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I wouldn't wish overnight success on anyone. You have no real friends. Everyone works endless hours at different studios, so far apart. Even on your own lot, relationships were formal and often competitive.
Olivia De Havilland / Film Actress
Formal
Hours
Overnight Success
Real Friends
Studios
Wish
Apart
Works
Competitive
Overnight
Relationships
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I am attracted by almost any French word - written or spoken. Before I knew its meaning, I thought 'saucisson' so exquisite that it seemed the perfect name to give a child - until I learned it meant 'sausage!'
Olivia De Havilland / Film Actress
Exquisite
Sausage
Meant
French
Seemed
Spoken
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The one thing that you simply have to remember all the time that you are there, is that Hollywood is an oriental city. As long as you do that you might survive. If you try to equate it with anything else you'll perish.
Olivia De Havilland / Film Actress
Hollywood
Time Long City
Anything Else
Equate
Time City Long
Oriental
Perish
Survive
The One Thing
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Playing good girls in the 30s was difficult, when the fad was to play bad girls. Actually I think playing bad girls is a bore; I have always had more luck with good girl roles because they require more from an actress.
Olivia De Havilland / Film Actress
Good Girl
Luck
Roles
Bad Girls
Good Always Difficult
Bore
Fad
Good Bad Difficult
Require
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Playing good girls in the '30s was difficult, when the fad was to play bad girls. Actually I think playing bad girls is a bore; I have always had more luck with good girl roles because they require more from an actress.
Olivia De Havilland / Film Actress
Girl
Play
Thinking
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The one thing that you simply have to remember all the time that you are there is that Hollywood is an Oriental city. As long as you do that, you might survive. If you try to equate it with anything else, you'll perish.
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Cities
Long
Trying
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all the French speak French - even the children. Many Americans and Britishers who visit the country never quite adjust to this, and the idea persists that the natives speak the language just to show off or be difficult.
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Children
Country
Ideas
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When I was five, I discovered a secret box that contained Mummy's stage makeup. It was like finding buried treasure. I tried the rouge, the eye shadow, the lipstick. But I couldn't get the rouge off. Mummy spanked me terribly.
Olivia De Havilland / Film Actress
Buried
Lipstick
Makeup
Mummy
Rouge
Shadow
Treasure
Contained
Terribly
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If I watch 'Gone With the Wind,' I always find it interesting. I think, 'What's going to happen next? What's that character going to do?' But you know, you never really need to watch the films you made again. They stay inside you, always with you.
Olivia De Havilland / Film Actress
Wind
Gone With The Wind
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I had a very big crush on Errol Flynn during 'Captain Blood.' I thought he was absolutely smashing for three solid years, but he never guessed. Then he had one on me but nothing came of it. I'm not going to regret that; it could have ruined my life.
Olivia De Havilland / Film Actress
Blood
Crush
Regret
Ruined
Smashing
Three
Life Me My Life
Life Regret Me
Absolutely
Came
Captain
Solid
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By 1951, television had already made such inroads on the income garnered by motion picture companies that the Golden Era which had prevailed until then was beginning to disintegrate. And by 1953, it had come to an end. Hollywood was a dismal, tragic place.
Olivia De Havilland / Film Actress
Golden
Income
Tragic
Dismal
Beginning Picture End
Motion
Motion Picture
Prevailed
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I feel like a survivor from an age that people no longer understand. I want to try to explain what the 1930s - the golden age of Hollywood - was truly like. People forget that America was such a different place then, not yet the dominant force in the world.
Olivia De Havilland / Film Actress
Different Place
Dominant
Golden
Golden Age
Survivor
Age World People
Dominant Force
Explain
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I felt 'Gone with the Wind' would last five years, and it's lasted over 70 and into a new millennium. There is a special place in my heart for that film and Melanie. She was a remarkable character - a loving person - and because of that, she was a happy person. And Scarlett, of course, was not.
Olivia De Havilland / Film Actress
Character
Felt
Film
Happy Person
Millennium
Remarkable
Special
Wind
Course
Gone With The Wind
Last
Loving
Scarlett
Special Place
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I have, indeed, lived most of my life overseas, but I've returned repeatedly to work in film, special television productions, and the New York theater. There have also been tributes and similar occasions that have called me back to Hollywood. I've returned so often, I almost feel that I've never left.
Olivia De Havilland / Film Actress
Productions
Life Work Me
Indeed
Overseas
Repeatedly
Returned
Similar
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I would prefer to live forever in perfect health, but if I must at some time leave this life, I would like to do so ensconced on a chaise longue, perfumed, wearing a velvet robe and pearl earrings, with a flute of champagne beside me and having just discovered the answer to the last problem in a British cryptic crossword.
Olivia De Havilland / Film Actress
Health
Answers
British
Champagne
Earrings
Forever
Perfect
Problem
Velvet
Life Time Health
Life Time Me
Like
Just
Me
Answer
Prefer
Beside
Crossword
Discovered
Leave
Life Health Time
Flute
Wearing
Having
Must
Pearl
Some
Robe
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