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There are 24 quotes for the author Laurence Olivier

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It's just like a nursery game of make-believe.

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

Autograph-hunting is the most unattractive manifestation of sex-starved curiosity.

Lead the audience by the nose to the thought.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

My stage successes have provided me with the greatest moments outside myself, my film successes the best moments, professionally, within myself.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

I should be soaring away with my head tilted slightly toward the gods, feeding on the caviar of Shakespeare. An actor must act.

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.

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.

I take a simple view of living. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.

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