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Laurence Olivier Quotes
Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult. - Laurence Olivier Quotes
Have a very good reason for everything you do. - Laurence Olivier Quotes
I believe that in a great city, or even in a small city or a village, a great theater is the outward and visible sign of an inward and probable culture. - Laurence Olivier Quotes
I dont know what is better than the work that is given to the actor-to teach the human heart the knowledge of itself. - Laurence Olivier Quotes
I often think that could we creep behind the actors eyes, we would find an attic of forgotten toys and a copy of the Domesday Book. - Laurence Olivier Quotes
I should be soaring away with my head tilted slightly toward the gods, feeding on the caviar of Shakespeare. An actor must act. - Laurence Olivier Quotes
I take a simple view of life: keep your eyes open and get on with it. - Laurence Olivier Quotes
I take a simple view of living. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it. - Laurence Olivier Quotes
Id like people to remember me for a diligent expert workman. I think a poet is a workman. I think Shakespeare was a workman. And Gods a workman. I dont think theres anything better than a workman. - Laurence Olivier Quotes
If he was lost for a moment, he would dive straight back into its honey. - Laurence Olivier Quotes
Lead the audience by the nose to the thought. - Laurence Olivier Quotes
Living is strife and torment, disappointment and love and sacrifice, golden sunsets and black storms. I said that some time ago, and today I do not think I would add one word. - Laurence Olivier Quotes
My stage successes have provided me with the greatest moments outside myself, my film successes the best moments, professionally, within myself. - Laurence Olivier Quotes
Surely we have always acted; it is an instinct inherent in all of us. Some of us are better at it than others, but we all do it. - Laurence Olivier Quotes
The actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand. - Laurence Olivier Quotes
The office of drama is to exercise, possibly to exhaust, human emotions. The purpose of comedy is to tickle those emotions into an expression of light relief; of tragedy, to wound them and bring the relief of tears. Disgust and terror are the other points of the compass. - Laurence Olivier Quotes
We ape, we mimic, we mock. We act. - Laurence Olivier Quotes
We have all, at one time or another, been performers, and many of us still are - politicians, playboys, cardinals and kings. - Laurence Olivier Quotes
When youre a young man, Macbeth is a character part. When youre older, its a straight part. - Laurence Olivier Quotes
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