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Laurence Olivier

"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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"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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"We ape, we mimic, we mock. We act."
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"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."
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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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"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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"Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult."
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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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"We have all, at one time or another, been performers, and many of us still are - politicians, playboys, cardinals and kings."
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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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"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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