Author: Laurence Olivier

Quotes

We have all, at one time or another, been performers, and many of us still are - politicians, playboys, cardinals and kings.

We have all, at one time or another, been performers, and many of us still are - politicians, playboys, cardinals and kings.

- Laurence Olivier

I take a simple view of life: keep your eyes open and get on with it.

I take a simple view of life: keep your eyes open and get on with it.

- Laurence Olivier

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.

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.

- Laurence Olivier

A man's prime interest in life must be his work.

A man's prime interest in life must be his work.

- Laurence Olivier

I can't think I've ever loved anybody quite as much... My mother was my life, really; she was my entire world.

I can't think I've ever loved anybody quite as much... My mother was my life, really; she was my entire world.

- Laurence Olivier

Have a very good reason for everything you do.

Have a very good reason for everything you do.

- Laurence Olivier

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.

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

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 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.

- Laurence Olivier

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.

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.

- Laurence Olivier

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