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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 Quotes

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

Acting And Actors

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. - Laurence Olivier Quotes

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.

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 Quotes

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

English Actor Instinct

The actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand. - Laurence Olivier Quotes

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

Laurence Olivier

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 Quotes

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

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 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

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

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

Laurence Olivier

English Actor Politicians

Acting is illusion, as much illusion as magic is, and not so much a matter of being real. - Laurence Olivier Quotes

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

Laurence Olivier

Acting And Actors

If he was lost for a moment, he would dive straight back into its honey. - Laurence Olivier Quotes

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 Quotes

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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