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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• Laurence Olivier:

  The office of drama is to exercise, possibly to exhaust, human emotions. The purpose of comedy is t

• Laurence Olivier:

  I believe that in a great city, or even in a small city or a village, a great theater is the outwar

• Laurence Olivier:

  Surely we have always acted; it is an instinct inherent in all of us. Some of us are better at it t

• Laurence Olivier:

  We have all, at one time or another, been performers, and many of us still are - politicians, playb

• Laurence Olivier:

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

• Laurence Olivier:

  I often think that could we creep behind the actor's eyes, we would find an attic of forgotten toys

• Laurence Olivier:

  Lead the audience by the nose to the thought.

• Laurence Olivier:

  My stage successes have provided me with the greatest moments outside myself, my film successes the

• Laurence Olivier:

  If he was lost for a moment, he would dive straight back into its honey.

• Laurence Olivier:

  I'd like people to remember me for a diligent expert workman. I think a poet is a workman. I think