Zitat des Tages von Laurence Olivier:
Lead the audience by the nose to the thought.
It took me two years to walk around a chair with ease; it took me another two years to learn how to laugh onstage - and I had to learn everything.
If he was lost for a moment, he would dive straight back into its honey.
My stage successes have provided me with the greatest moments outside myself, my film successes the best moments, professionally, within myself.
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.
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.
We have all, at one time or another, been performers, and many of us still are - politicians, playboys, cardinals and kings.
I take a simple view of life: keep your eyes open and get on with it.
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.
Have a very good reason for everything you do.
The actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand.
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.
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.
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.
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.
When you're a young man, Macbeth is a character part. When you're older, it's a straight part.
I can't think I've ever loved anybody quite as much... My mother was my life, really; she was my entire world.
I suppose, unconsciously, I used all my wives to further my journey up the ladder.
A man's prime interest in life must be his work.