Quotes of Olivier - somelinesforyou

“ Attitudes to museums have changed. If it had Marilyn Monroe's knickers or Laurence Olivier's jockstrap they would flock to it. ”

- Jonathan Miller

“ Olivier's idea of introspection was to hood his eyes, dentalize his consonants and let the camera circle his blondined head like a sparrow looking for a place to deposit its droppings. ”

- Robert Brustein

“ Well, Marlon had graduated from my school a couple of years earlier. But we were together at the Actor's Studio. Everybody was there, Jimmy Dean… And back then I saw Laurence Olivier in The Entertainer, James Earl Jones in The Great White Hope… She's an old lady now-Judith Anderson! I saw her play Medea… ”

- Beatrice Arthur
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