"If you're an artist, you've got to prove…" — Laurence Olivier

"If you're an artist, you've got to prove it."

— Laurence Olivier

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41 Quotes by Laurence Olivier

Laurence Olivier has 41 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

I am far from sure when I am acting and when I am not or, should I more frankly put…
Surely we have always acted; it is an instinct inherent in all of us. Some of us are better at…
What is acting but lying and what is good lying but convincing lying?
When you're a young man, Macbeth is a character part. When you're older, it's a straight part.
No matter how well you perform, there's always somebody of intelligent opinion who thinks it's lousy.
Don't waste your time striving for perfection; instead, strive for excellence - doing your best.
Use your weaknesses; aspire to the strength.
Acting is illusion, as much illusion as magic is, and not so much a matter of being real.
Work is life for me, it is the only point of life-and with it there is almost religious belief that…
I often think that could we creep behind the actor's eyes, we would find an attic of forgotten toys and…
My stage successes have provided me with the greatest moments outside myself, my film successes the best moments, professionally, within…
The office of drama is to exercise, possibly to exhaust, human emotions. The purpose of comedy is to tickle those…

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A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the… — Pietro Aretino
Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them… — Aristotle
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,… — Aristotle
It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for… — Aristotle
I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in… — Billie Joe Armstrong
There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex,… — Karen Armstrong
I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new… — Darren Aronofsky
I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your… — Arthur Ashe
Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers. — Isaac Asimov

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