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Letter "L" » Laurence Olivier, Sir Quotes
«Acting is illusion, as much illusion as magic is, and not so much a matter of being real.»
Author: Laurence Olivier, Sir
(Actor, Film Director, Producer)
| About:
Actors and acting
| Keywords:
Real Magic
«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»
Author: Laurence Olivier, Sir
(Actor, Film Director, Producer)
| Keywords:
announced, Dustin Hoffman, Hoffman, sleep in
«I believe that in a great city, or even in a small city or a village, a great theater is the outward and visible sign of an inward and probable culture.»
Author: Laurence Olivier, Sir
(Actor, Film Director, Producer)
| About:
Culture,
Theater
| Keywords:
inward, probable, theater, village
«Work is life for me, it is the only point of life-and with it there is almost religious belief that service is everything.»
Author: Laurence Olivier, Sir
(Actor, Film Director, Producer)
| About:
Social service,
Work
| Keywords:
religious belief, religious beliefs, religious service
«I often think that could we creep behind the actor's eyes, we would find an attic of forgotten toys and a copy of the Domesday Book.»
Author: Laurence Olivier, Sir
(Actor, Film Director, Producer)
| Keywords:
actor, attic, copy, creep, Domesday Book, toys
«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.»
Author: Laurence Olivier, Sir
(Actor, Film Director, Producer)
| Keywords:
craftsman, directing, interpretive, motion picture, Motion pictures, nearest, The Motion Picture
«Autograph-hunting is the most unattractive manifestation of sex-starved curiosity.»
Author: Laurence Olivier, Sir
(Actor, Film Director, Producer)
| About:
Relationships
| Keywords:
manifestation, most unattractive, sex-starved
«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.»
Author: Laurence Olivier, Sir
(Actor, Film Director, Producer)
| Keywords:
blare, blaring, brass, crash, cymbal, cymbals, guts, practicality, supported, throat, trained
«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.»
«I take a simple view of life: keep your eyes open and get on with it.»
Author: Laurence Olivier, Sir
(Actor, Film Director, Producer)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
get on, get on with, Open and
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