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Laurence Olivier Quotes

Laurence Olivier quotes

English Actor May 22, 1907 – July 11, 1989

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Laurence Olivier quote: "I take a simple view of life: keep your eyes open and get on..."
I take a simple view of life: keep your eyes open and get on with it. 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
[in 1979] You must have - besides intuition and sensitivity - a cutting edge that allows you to reach what you need. Also, you have to know life - bastards included - and it takes a bit of one to know one, don't you think? 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
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
Laurence Olivier quote: "[the only acting advice he would give] What is acting but..."
[the only acting advice he would give] What is acting but lying and what is good lying but convincing lying? 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'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
Laurence Olivier quote: "Have a very good reason for everything you do."
Have a very good reason for everything you do. Laurence Olivier
Laurence Olivier quote: "I don't know what is better than the work that is given to the..."
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
Laurence Olivier quote: "We have all, at one time or another, been performers, and many..."
We have all, at one time or another, been performers, and many of us still are - politicians, playboys, cardinals and kings. 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 should be soaring away with my head tilted slightly toward the gods, feeding on the caviar of Shakespeare. An actor must act. Laurence Olivier
Laurence Olivier quote: "If he was lost for a moment, he would dive straight back into..."
If he was lost for a moment, he would dive straight back into its honey. Laurence Olivier
Laurence Olivier quote: "Acting is illusion, as much illusion as magic is, and not so..."
Acting is illusion, as much illusion as magic is, and not so much a matter of being real. Laurence Olivier

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