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Laurence Olivier

"The actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand."

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"The actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand."

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"I should be soaring away with my head tilted slightly toward the gods, feeding on the caviar of Shakespeare. An actor must act."
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"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."
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"Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult."
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"I take a simple view of life: keep your eyes open and get on with it."
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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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"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."
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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 a copy of the Domesday Book."
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"Lead the audience by the nose to the thought."
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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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"We ape, we mimic, we mock. We act."
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