Quotes about Laurence Olivier

When you're a young man, Macbeth is a character part. When you're older, it's a...

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We have all, at one time or another, been performers, and many of us still...

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We ape, we mimic, we mock. We act.

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The office of drama is to exercise, possibly to exhaust, human emotions. The purpose of...

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The actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand.

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Surely we have always acted; it is an instinct inherent in all of us. Some...

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Lead the audience by the nose to the thought.

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If he was lost for a moment, he would dive straight back into its honey.

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I'd like people to remember me for a diligent expert workman. I think a poet...

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I take a simple view of life: keep your eyes open and get on with...

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I should be soaring away with my head tilted slightly toward the gods, feeding on...

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I often think that could we creep behind the actor's eyes, we would find an...

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