Olivier Quotes
28 quotes by 28 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Acting is all about big hair and funny props... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it.
— Harold Ramis
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Olivier was another case of a genius, who couldn't understand why anybody would have any trouble doing this, because for him it came so easily.
— James Lipton
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I swore on screen when I got the Olivier for 'Legally Blonde,' I was so surprised. Awards where the public vote mean a lot. I'm…
— Sheridan Smith
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I think my best work has been in France with great men. It's been my great fortune to work with really great men - with…
— Emmanuelle Beart
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I wanted to be Laurence Olivier, basically, to be a great classical actor, and also be able to do modern things.
— Stacy Keach
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It’s an interesting sign of the times that models are being booked for jobs and covers because of their following on a social media platform,…
— Karlie Kloss
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Olivier said that drama is an affair of the heart, or it's nothing, and he was right.
— Pam Gems
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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
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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
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I worked with Lawrence Olivier some years ago. He was a great mentor.
— Anthony Hopkins
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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
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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
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Daniel Day-Lewis is one of the greatest actors of our age; he's like Olivier. He's one of those people who can take you into a…
— Sam Taylor-Wood
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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
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