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Actor Quotes by Laurence Olivier
- 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…
- What is the main problem of the actor? It is to keep the audience awake, and not let them go to sleep, then wake up…
- 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 than an…
- I should be soaring away with my head tilted slightly toward the gods, feeding on the caviar of Shakespeare. An actor must act.
- 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.
- 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.
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