Laurence Olivier Quotes

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.

Laurence Olivier

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: May 22, 1907 - July 11, 1989

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When I was president, I announced and I still maintain that I can live with Roe v. Wade. I did everything I possibly could as president under that ruling, which I don't think ought to be changed, to minimize the need for abortions. I think every abortion is a result of a horrible series of errors on the part of people involved.

Jimmy Carter

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I'm always looking for what there is to see that's weird and wonderful and off the beaten path.

Joanna Going

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Here's what's nice about life: Sometimes you have ideas and for the most part, they're not good ones. And then you'll follow through with a handful of them and sometimes you'll be pretty disappointed. And then other times you'll follow through and you'll go, 'You know what? It's nice to be right.'

Max Greenfield

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I watch the ball fiercely to see its height and speed off my opponent's racket so I can decide how I want to hit it.

Sloane Stephens

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There is one thing I would break up over, and that is if she caught me with another woman. I won't stand for that.

Steve Martin

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The young actors coming out of the Universities are well trained.

Tony Randall

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Yeah, I was in the phase for the last ten years or so where every record I made I said OK, that's the last one, I don't want to record anymore, I don't want to do this any more, I don't want to have a public life.

Rosanne Cash

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I've worked with leading men so worried about losing their charm that they were always winking to the audience.

Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio

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Existential philosophy, poetry and art - just like sadness - were all unavoidable to a tender young man in the meat works.

Michael Leunig

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I tried to use the questions and answers as an armature on which to build a sculpture of genuine conversation.

Clifton Fadiman

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I wanted to be a story teller so badly.

Bonnie Hunt

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We've been fighting our whole lives to say we're just human beings like everyone else. When we start separating ourselves in our work, that doesn't help the cause. I've heard it for years: 'How do you feel being a black filmmaker?' I'm not a black filmmaker, I'm a filmmaker. I'm a black man, I have black children. But I'm just a filmmaker.

Antoine Fuqua

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