"Work is life for me, it is the……" — Laurence Olivier
"Work is life for me, it is the only point of life-and with it there is almost religious belief that service is everything."
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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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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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Lead the audience by the nose to the thought.
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More Almost Religious Quotes
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I'm fanatical about sport: there seems to me something almost religious about the fact that human beings can organise play,…
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We must ask whether our machine technology makes us proof against all those destructive forces which plagued Roman society and…
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We either have wild places or we don't. We admit the spiritual-emotional validity of wild, beautiful places or we don't.…
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Lucky people develop a relationship with a certain kind of art that becomes spiritual, almost religious, and doesn’t mean, you…
— David Foster Wallace
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As to the family, I have never understood how that fits in with the other ideals --or, indeed, why it…
— Rose Macaulay
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Ballet really lends itself to that because there's such a sense of ritual, with wrapping the shoes every day and…
— Natalie Portman
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Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is…
— William James
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That,' he said, with almost religious fever, 'was the coolest thing you have ever done. In fact, that may have…
— Mira Grant
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I have an almost religious zeal... not for technology per se, but for the Internet which is for me, the…
— Dan Millman
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Something new has taken place in the past five to eight years. Technologists are providing almost religious visions, and their…
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