Mock Quote by Laurence Olivier Download Open image “We ape, we mimic, we mock. We act.” — Laurence Olivier ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Mock
“Imitation and custom are the spring of almost all human action. The cause of it is that men fight shy of all and any… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Contrary to general belief, humans imitate apes more than the reverse — Frans De Waal Copy Share Image
Contrary to general belief, humans imitate apes more than the reverse. The sight of monkeys or apes induces an irresistible urge in people to… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
I demand of you, and of the whole world, that you show me a generic character... by which to distinguish between Man and Ape.… — Carl Linnaeus Copy Share Image
The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realize that we are apes. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
We are a unique ape. We have language. Other animals have systems of communication that fall far short of that. They don't have the… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Ask, 'How are we different from the great apes?' We have culture, we have civilisation, and we have language to be celebrated as part… — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Copy Share Image
We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realise that we are apes. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Well, I will scourge those apes, And to these courteous eyes oppose a mirror, As large as is the stage whereon we act; Where… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
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… — Laurence Olivier Copy Share Image
Autograph-hunting is the most unattractive manifestation of sex-starved curiosity. — Laurence Olivier Copy Share Image
I believe in the theater; I believe in it as the first glamorizer of thought. It restores dramatic dynamics and their relations to life… — Laurence Olivier Copy Share Image
I suppose, unconsciously, I used all my wives to further my journey up the ladder. — Laurence Olivier Copy Share Image
“[in 1979] You must have - besides intuition and sensitivity - a cutting edge that allows you to reach what you need. Also, you… — Laurence Olivier Copy Share Image
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. — Laurence Olivier Copy Share Image
[on whether he harbored any resentment at his forced retirement from the stage after he was fired by Britain's National Theater] I should be… — Laurence Olivier Copy Share Image
If he was lost for a moment, he would dive straight back into its honey. — Laurence Olivier Copy Share Image
My hero among heroes is my grandmother, she's the epitome of strength and I try to mock that strength all the time. She's a… — Aeriel Miranda Copy Share Image
“It can be so difficult to train up the peasants,” she said, pretending to commiserate, her voice heavy with irony. “They find it so… — Caitlin Crews Copy Share Image
All parents should be aware that when they mock or curse gay people, they may be mocking or cursing their own child. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Janet Mock's honest and sometimes searing journey is a rare and important look into la vida liminal, one that she manages to negotiate remarkably… — Raquel Cepeda Copy Share Image
O, when I am safe in my sylvan home, I mock at the pride of Greece and Rome; And when I am stretch'd beneath… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
During a mock battle attended by President Warren Harding in 1921, Marine Corps General Smedley D. Butler exhumed the arm [of Stonewall Jackson; he… — Tony Horwitz Copy Share Image
Death is the only monastery; the tomb is the only cell, and the grave that adjoins the convent is the bitterest mock of its… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Africans sensed in their hearts that Jesus did not mock their respect for the sacred or their clamor for an invincible Savior, so they… — Lamin Sanneh Copy Share Image
“He who makes fun of a short and fat man’s weight is much less cruel than he who makes fun of his height.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Doubt not the self O lion-heart, for those who call you crazy will one day worship you.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The black arrowed swoop of the moment swung high into the unceilinged future, ten, fifty, sixty years, may be: then, past seeing, up to… — Eric Rucker Eddison Copy Share Image
