English - Actor | May 22, 1907 - July 11, 1989
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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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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We ape, we mimic, we mock. We act.
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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.
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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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If he was lost for a moment, he would dive straight back into its honey.
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It took me two years to walk around a chair with ease; it took me another two years to learn how to laugh onstage - and I had to learn everything.
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I take a simple view of life: keep your eyes open and get on with it.
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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.
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Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult.
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I can't think I've ever loved anybody quite as much... My mother was my life, really; she was my entire world.
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Have a very good reason for everything you do.
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