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Laurence Olivier, Sir 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.»
«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.»
«The actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand.»
Author: Laurence Olivier, Sir
(Actor, Film Director, Producer)
| About:
Actors and acting
| Keywords:
actor, palm, palmed
«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.»
Author: Laurence Olivier, Sir
(Actor, Film Director, Producer)
| Keywords:
actor, exhalation, exhalations, extra, heights, it An, larger-than-life, larger, madness, temperament, temperaments, voltage
«Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult.»
Author: Laurence Olivier, Sir
(Actor, Film Director, Producer)
| About:
Actors and acting
| Keywords:
adult, exhibitionism, masochistic, occupation
«What is acting but lying and what is good lying but convincing lying?»
Author: Laurence Olivier, Sir
(Actor, Film Director, Producer)
| About:
Actors and acting
| Keywords:
acting, convincing
«Without acting I cannot breathe.»
Author: Laurence Olivier, Sir
(Actor, Film Director, Producer)
| About:
Actors and acting
| Keywords:
breathe
«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.»
Author: Laurence Olivier, Sir
(Actor, Film Director, Producer)
| Keywords:
be restored, dramatic, dynamics, relations, restores, restoring, size, theater
«I should be soaring away with my head tilted slightly toward the gods, feeding on the caviar of Shakespeare. An actor must act.»
Author: Laurence Olivier, Sir
(Actor, Film Director, Producer)
| About:
Actors and acting
| Keywords:
actor, act of God, caviar, feeding, Shakespeare, slightly, soaring, tilt, tilted, tilting, tilts