Olivia de Havilland Quotes

• One must take what comes, with laughter.

  Olivia de Havilland

  Laughter, Personality, Aging

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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

  Perfect, Forever, Answers

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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

  Niece, Expression, Appreciate

  "Oscar-winning actress Joan Fontaine dead at 96" by Alan Duke, www.cnn.com. December 16, 2013.

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• It's hard to keep on being civil when they ask you such annoying questions.

  Olivia de Havilland

  Annoying, Asks, Hard

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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

  People, Wave, Natural

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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.

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  Girl, Thinking, Play

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The TV business is soul-crushing, talent-destroying and human being-destroying.

  Olivia de Havilland

  Crush, Soul, Tvs

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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

  Mean, Perfect, Imagination

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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

  Actresses, My Sister, Family Life

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• I'm all for typewriters, with instant carbon copies, and seeing films in cinemas.

  Olivia de Havilland

  Typewriters, Cinema, Film

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• I was just a mini-star when we did 'Gone With the Wind.'

  Olivia de Havilland

  Stars, Wind, Gone

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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

  Crush, Regret, Blood

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• Of course we fight. What sisters don't battle?

  Olivia de Havilland

  Fighting, Battle, Courses

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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.

  Olivia de Havilland

  Country, Children, Ideas

  Olivia de Havilland (2016). “Every Frenchman Has One”, p.31, Crown Archetype

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• I don't feel the cold. It's my British blood!

  Olivia de Havilland

  Blood, Cold, British

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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

  Teacher, School, Government

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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

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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

  Worry, Mysterious, Appendix

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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

  Believe, Chemistry, Screens

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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

  Easter, Tasks, Scripture

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