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Laurence Olivier [1907-1989] English

Rank: 101
Actor

Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier, OM was an English actor who, along with his contemporaries Ralph Richardson and John Gielgud, dominated the British stage of the mid-20th century.

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The office of drama is to exercise, possibly to exhaust, human emotions. The purpose of comedy is to tickle those emotions into an expression of light relief; of tragedy, to wound them and bring the relief of tears. Disgust and terror are the other points of the compass.		101
I should be soaring away with my head tilted slightly toward the gods, feeding on the caviar of Shakespeare. An actor must act.		102
Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult.		103
Living is strife and torment, disappointment and love and sacrifice, golden sunsets and black storms. I said that some time ago, and today I do not think I would add one word.	Time	104
I don't know what is better than the work that is given to the actor-to teach the human heart the knowledge of itself.	Knowledge, Work	105
I believe that in a great city, or even in a small city or a village, a great theater is the outward and visible sign of an inward and probable culture.	Great	106
The actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand.		107
I take a simple view of life: keep your eyes open and get on with it.		108
We have all, at one time or another, been performers, and many of us still are - politicians, playboys, cardinals and kings.		109
My stage successes have provided me with the greatest moments outside myself, my film successes the best moments, professionally, within myself.		110
When you're a young man, Macbeth is a character part. When you're older, it's a straight part.		111
I'd like people to remember me for a diligent expert workman. I think a poet is a workman. I think Shakespeare was a workman. And God's a workman. I don't think there's anything better than a workman.		112
Have a very good reason for everything you do.	Good	113
We ape, we mimic, we mock. We act.		114
Lead the audience by the nose to the thought.		115
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 Domesday Book.		116
Surely we have always acted; it is an instinct inherent in all of us. Some of us are better at it than others, but we all do it.		117
If he was lost for a moment, he would dive straight back into its honey.		118

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