Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult.
Laurence Olivier
Autograph-hunting is the most unattractive manifestation of sex-starved curiosity.
Laurence Olivier
Have a very good reason for everything you do.
Laurence Olivier
I believe in the theater; I believe in it as the first glamorizer of thought. It restores dramatic dynamics and their relations to life size.
Laurence Olivier
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
I don't know what is better than the work that is given to the actor-to teach the human heart the knowledge of itself.
Laurence Olivier
I often think that could we creep behind the actor's eyes, we would find an attic of forgotten toys and a copy of the Domesday Book.
Laurence Olivier
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
I take a simple view of life: keep your eyes open and get on with it.
Laurence Olivier
I take a simple view of living. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.
Laurence Olivier
I'd like people to remember me for a diligent expert workman. I think a poet is a workman. I think Shakespeare was a workman. And God's a workman. I don't think there's anything better than a workman.
Laurence Olivier
I'm rather bored by the subject-meaning me. It's a sort of a yoke, but at times you know, a yoke is a kind of comfort. And it's always there.
Laurence Olivier
If he was lost for a moment, he would dive straight back into its honey.
Laurence Olivier
It's just like a nursery game of make-believe.
Laurence Olivier
Lead the audience by the nose to the thought.
Laurence Olivier
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
My stage successes have provided me with the greatest moments outside myself, my film successes the best moments, professionally, within myself.
Laurence Olivier
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
The actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand.
Laurence Olivier
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
There is a spirit in us that makes our brass to blare and our cymbals crash-all, of course, supported by the practicalities of trained lung power, throat, heart, guts.
Laurence Olivier
We ape, we mimic, we mock. We act.
Laurence Olivier
We have all, at one time or another, been performers, and many of us still are - politicians, playboys, cardinals and kings.
Laurence Olivier
When you're a young man, Macbeth is a character part. When you're older, it's a straight part.
Laurence Olivier
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Type:
Actor
Date of Birth:
1907-05-22
Year of Death:
1989
Nationality:
English |
