"Lead the audience by the nose to the…" — Laurence Olivier
"Lead the audience by the nose to the thought."
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41 Quotes by Laurence Olivier
Laurence Olivier has 41 quotes on this site.
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I am far from sure when I am acting and when I am not or, should I more frankly put…
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Surely we have always acted; it is an instinct inherent in all of us. Some of us are better at…
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What is acting but lying and what is good lying but convincing lying?
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When you're a young man, Macbeth is a character part. When you're older, it's a straight part.
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No matter how well you perform, there's always somebody of intelligent opinion who thinks it's lousy.
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Don't waste your time striving for perfection; instead, strive for excellence - doing your best.
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Use your weaknesses; aspire to the strength.
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Acting is illusion, as much illusion as magic is, and not so much a matter of being real.
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Work is life for me, it is the only point of life-and with it there is almost religious belief that…
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I often think that could we creep behind the actor's eyes, we would find an attic of forgotten toys and…
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My stage successes have provided me with the greatest moments outside myself, my film successes the best moments, professionally, within…
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The office of drama is to exercise, possibly to exhaust, human emotions. The purpose of comedy is to tickle those…
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I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences.
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I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective.
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I began to work the stage and get the audience into it. I also learned how to have fun out…
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Confronting a stadium audience, you can't see the whites of their eyes. It's just an amorphous mass of noise and,…
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You see, the interesting thing about books, as opposed, say, to films, is that it's always just one person encountering…
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If you really want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, dahling. Be an audience.
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I don't feel like I need to preach to the world or nothing like that. I just feel like I…
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I have the ability to sing with emotion and feeling, but if you say I sound like Billie Holiday, that's…
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You're creating a different world and the actor's job is to be able to convince the audience to enter into…
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I am a real ham. I love an audience. I work better with an audience. I am dead, in fact,…
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I always feel that art in general and acting in particular should make the audience a little uncomfortable, to slap…
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I'm trying to build a strong business. I want to create new stars, new shows and new products for my…
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