Peter Brook’s production with Laurence Olivier as Titus…

“I understood the stage in New York City didn't simply exist on Broadway, with actors playing our parts. The most dramatic, unforgettable and horrifying…

— Jennifer Laurens

'West Side Story' is one of the greatest theatrical experiences I've had.

— John Tiffany

I met Peter Brook, the theater director, who's been based in Paris for many years at the Bouffes du Nord. I admire him tremendously.…

— Paul Auster

I remember my first review in London said I was the next Peter Brook. I said: 'No way. I'm not Peter Brook. I don't…

— Robert Lepage

But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir…

— Patrick Stewart

I always loved how people like Jon Voight and Laurence Olivier shocked you every time they came on-screen. They were so different each time.…

— Julia Stiles

I grew up with the great Sir Laurence Olivier, and I think it's fair to say that a lot of actors of my age…

— Ian Holm

I really think the more talent people have, the more polite they are: Laurence Olivier and Alec Guinness always arrived on time and were…

— Antony Armstrong-Jones

To have a childhood surrounded by people like Sir Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh sounds glitzy, but for years I wanted to repress it.…

— Michael Korda

I started being interested in acting when I heard the voices of Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud and Sir Alec Guinness. Ive…

— Kenneth Branagh

On my wall, along with my favorite football players and baseball players, I had Marlon Brando and Sir Laurence Olivier. These were childhood idols.

— Dennis Haysbert

I played Othello, but I didn't sit around thinking how Laurence Olivier did it when he played it. That wouldn't do me any good.

— Denzel Washington

'Hamlet' was the first movie I saw. In 1948, my mother said, 'I'm going to take you to see 'Hamlet' with Laurence Olivier.' She…

— Christopher Lloyd

Yes, it's true, I've been called the Laurence Olivier of spoofs. I guess that would make Laurence Olivier the Leslie Nielsen of Shakespeare.

— Leslie Nielsen

I would have liked Sir Laurence Olivier to ask me to go to the Old Vic and let me play all the roles Judi…

— Anne Reid