Quotes of Laurence Olivier - somelinesforyou

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

- Laurence Olivier

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

- 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

“ 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

“ 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

“ 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

“ 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 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 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

“ 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

“ 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

“ 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

“ 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 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

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

- Laurence Olivier

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

- 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

“ 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

“ 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

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

- 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

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

- 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

“ 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

“ 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

“ 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'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

“ 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

“ 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
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