Book Quote by Laurence Olivier

Actually it's a gift as an actor to cover such different parts of history. It's like time travelling, being inside a history book, in…

— Sebastian Koch

“It was the same fearful excitement we felt when we happened to drive through what Mummer considered a bad part of London and found…

— Andrew Michael Hurley

Movies made back in the day would have a single scene that defined what the character was all about.

— Zayed Khan

“They, too, knew this beautiful and harrowing landscape, centuries dead; they'd had the experience of looking up from their books with fifth-century eyes and…

— donna tartt

And would it have been worth it, after all, Would it have been worth while, After the sunsets and the dooryards and the sprinkled…

— Anonymous

With the death of my father, it wasn't just the objects of everyday life that had changed; even the most ordinary street scenes had…

— Orhan Pamuk

So the books for the Englishman, as he listened intently or not, had gaps of plot like sections of a road washed out by…

— Michael Ondaatje

There [in Allied] was depicting London in the war, as well, and doing that in a way where you see something that you don't…

— Steven Knight

Now, there's just so much imagery. Imagine what our grandkids are going to be able to see of us?

— Feist

Everything in 'The Tudors' is initially based on my historical research, and the fact is that the most unlikely scenes were the ones which…

— Michael Hirst

If this was The Lord of the Rings and I had a smart British voice like Cate Blanchett, I could tell you the background…

— Charlaine Harris

Ellis Peters's historical detail is very accurate and very minute, and therefore is not only interesting to read but good for an actor to…

— Derek Jacobi