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Laurence Olivier  Quotes
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

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Theater
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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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HeartSelf
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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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English ActorPoliticians
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Acting is illusion, as much illusion as magic is, and not so much a matter of being real.

—Laurence Olivier

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

—Laurence Olivier

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English Actor
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[the only acting advice he would give] What is acting but lying and what is good lying but convincing lying?

—Laurence Olivier

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ActingLie
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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...

—Laurence Olivier

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English Actor
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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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English ActorInstinct
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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...

—Laurence Olivier

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

—Laurence Olivier

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English Actor
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My dear boy, why don’t you try acting? (on the set of ‘Marathon Man’, to Dustin Hoffman, who had announced that he’d gone 3 days without sleep in order to ‘become’ his character

—Laurence Olivier

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Acting And Actors
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If I wasn’t an actor, I think I’d have gone mad. You have to have extra voltage, some extra temperament to reach certain heights. Art is a little bit larger than life- it’s an exhalation...

—Laurence Olivier

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

—Laurence Olivier

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Believe
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I like Paris. My problem is I don’t like Parisians.”

—Laurence Olivier

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Paris
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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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