When you’re a young man, Macbeth is a character part. When you’re older, it’s a straight part. Laurence Olivier Read Quote
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. Laurence Olivier Read Quote
Nobody is going to pretend that I am younger than I am. Apart from anything else, it is in the papers all the damn time – every time I have a birthday. Laurence Olivier Read Quote
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. Laurence Olivier Read Quote
Nine books have been written about me, and there’s not a word of truth in any of them. Laurence Olivier Read Quote
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. Laurence Olivier Read Quote
