Laurence Olivier quotes Born: 05/22/1907 Died: 07/11/1989 Country: united_kingdom

• Acting is illusion, as much illusion as magic is, and not so much a matter of being real. (Laurence Olivier) [magic/matter/being]
• 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. (Laurence Olivier) [hope-disappointment/love/time/think]
• What is acting but lying and what is good lying but convincing lying? (Laurence Olivier)
• The actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand. (Laurence Olivier) [universe]
• Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult. (Laurence Olivier) [form/exhibitionism]
• I believe in the theater; I believe in it as the first glamorizer of thought. It restores dramatic dynamics and their relations to life size. (Laurence Olivier) [relations/life]
• 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. (Laurence Olivier) [instinct]
• Without acting I cannot breathe. (Laurence Olivier)
• I should be soaring away with my head tilted slightly toward the gods, feeding on the caviar of Shakespeare. An actor must act. (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. (Laurence Olivier) [life/point/service]
• We ape, we mimic, we mock. We act. (Laurence Olivier)
• I take a simple view of life: keep your eyes open and get on with it. (Laurence Olivier) [take/life/eyes]
• 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. (Laurence Olivier) [culture]
• Have a very good reason for everything you do. (Laurence Olivier)

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