Laurence Quotes

24 Laurence quotes by 23 unique authors

The Brits are ghastly. I never would accept a Brit. It would be like Laurence Olivier being happy getting a TV Times award. — Steven Morrissey
If there be one man, more than another, who deserves to succeed in flying through the air, that man is Mr. Laurence Hargrave, of Sydney,… — Octave Chanute
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 always loved how people like Jon Voight and Laurence Olivier shocked you every time they came on-screen. They were so different each time. That's… — Julia Stiles
I figure there are a few actors like Marlon Brando, George C. Scott and Laurence Olivier who have been touched by the hand of God.… — John Forsythe
But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John… — Patrick Stewart
I can manage a prose format as long as I keep closer to Laurence Sterne than to Henry James. — David Antin
When I went to first grade and the other children said that their fathers were farmers, I simply didn't believe them. I agreed in order… — Jane Smiley
I started being interested in acting when I heard the voices of Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud and Sir Alec Guinness. Ive had… — Kenneth Branagh
You see, the Mets are losers, just like nearly everybody else in life. This is the team for the cab driver who gets held up… — Jimmy Breslin
I wouldn't write anything autobiographical. If you've lived a life like Laurence of Arabia, it might be a consideration, but otherwise it's a little bit… — James Lee Burke
I wanted to be Laurence Olivier, basically, to be a great classical actor, and also be able to do modern things. — Stacy Keach
Pop managers are fixed in the dramatic stock character repertoire too, ever since the first British pop film musical, Wolf Mankowitz's 'Expresso Bongo' of 1959,… — Peter York
On Laurence Olivier as Hamlet in a 1948 film: Olivier's idea of introspection was to hood his eyes, dentalize his consonants and let the camera… — Robert Brustein
I saw A Little Romance [and] I was so in love with Laurence Olivier. I watched that movie over and over and just fell in… — Jennifer Aniston
Don't you understand how dramatic it is to be a comic? To be a fool, to get people to laugh at this show-off? Milton Berle… — Jerry Lewis
When I came into the acting profession, it was quite hierarchical. You didn't sit at the same table as the leading actor. Sir Laurence Olivier,… — Helen Mirren
Laurence Olivier said in an interview once that when he plays a tragedy he always aims for the funny parts, and the other way around.… — Christopher Walken
The gate is perfectly simple," Temeraire said. "There is only a bar across the fence, which one can lift very easily, and then it swings… — Naomi Novik
I do not care if they do not like me," he said. "Maybe then they will let me alone, and I will not have to… — Naomi Novik
A fan once stopped me outside a theatre and gave me as a gift a signed photograph of Sir Laurence Olivier. It was strange, but… — David Alan Basche
I come from a family of actors. My grandfather was like a Laurence Olivier with the Comedie Francaise. Since I was four I went every… — Emmanuelle Seigner
An ideal movie would be, like - to get this to happen, I have to work so much harder - but imagine Denzel Washington, Laurence… — Donald Faison
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

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