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I am far from sure when I am acting and when I am not or, should I more frankly put it, when I am lying and when I am not. For what is acting but lying and what is good acting but convincing lying?
Laurence Olivier
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Laurence Olivier
Age: 82 †
Born: 1907
Born: May 22
Died: 1989
Died: July 11
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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.
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My stage successes have provided me with the greatest moments outside myself, my film successes the best moments, professionally, within myself.
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Autograph-hunting is the most unattractive manifestation of sex-starved curiosity.
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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.
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I'm rather bored by the subject - meaning me. It's a sort of a yoke, but at times you know, a yoke is a kind of comfort. And it's always there.
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Shakespeare - The nearest thing in incarnation to the eye of God.
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[May 1958, on playing Macbeth at age 30 and age 48] When you're a young man, Macbeth is a character part. When you're older, it's a straight part.
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Don't be afraid to be outrageous the critics will shoot you down anyway.
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If he was lost for a moment, he would dive straight back into its honey.
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The art of persuasion. The actor persuades himself, first, and through himself, the audience.
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Of all the things I've done in life, directing a motion picture is the most beautiful. It's the most exciting and the nearest than an interpretive craftsman, such as an actor can possibly get to being a creator.
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If you're an artist, you've got to prove it.
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Life is enthusiasm, zest.
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Without acting, I cannot breathe.
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Scratch an actor and you'll find an actor.
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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.
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