Laurence Olivier Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by 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


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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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/laurence-olivier-quotes/#4a92574b

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/laurence-olivier-quotes/#eb99d0a8

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/laurence-olivier-quotes/#f8d987db

Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult.
~Laurence Olivier


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/laurence-olivier-quotes/#66d02840

Have a very good reason for everything you do.
~Laurence Olivier


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/laurence-olivier-quotes/#0809a027

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/laurence-olivier-quotes/#1b5a7301

We ape, we mimic, we mock. We act.
~Laurence Olivier


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/laurence-olivier-quotes/#84e96891

Lead the audience by the nose to the thought.
~Laurence Olivier


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/laurence-olivier-quotes/#9d4ad115

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/laurence-olivier-quotes/#e4603eb6

We have all, at one time or another, been performers, and many of us still are - politicians, playboys, cardinals and kings.
~Laurence Olivier


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/laurence-olivier-quotes/#04541d0d

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/laurence-olivier-quotes/#b1bdac22

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/laurence-olivier-quotes/#c32aea1a

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/laurence-olivier-quotes/#122a6ddf

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/laurence-olivier-quotes/#75ffdcc8

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/laurence-olivier-quotes/#cf9cf7a0

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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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/laurence-olivier-quotes/#c5842924

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/laurence-olivier-quotes/#98335f5a

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