37 ordspråk av Laurence Olivier, Sir
Laurence Olivier, Sir
I take a simple view of living. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.
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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 a workman.
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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.
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If he was lost for a moment, he would dive straight back into its honey.
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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 of life and I think I you probably need a little touch of madness.
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It's just like a nursery game of make-believe.
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Lead the audience by the nose to the thought.
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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.
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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
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My stage successes have provided me with the greatest moments outside myself, my film successes the best moments, professionally, within myself.
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Of all the things I've done in life, directing a motion picture is the most beautiful. It's the most exciting and the nearest that an interpretive craftsman, such as an actor can possibly get to being a creator.
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Relax your feet.
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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.
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The actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand.
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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.
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