Work is life for me, it is the only point of life-and with it there is almost religious belief that service is everything.
Laurence Olivier, Sir
Acting is illusion, as much illusion as magic is, and not so much a matter of being real.
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The actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand.
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Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult.
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What is acting but lying and what is good lying but convincing lying?
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Without acting I cannot breathe.
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I should be soaring away with my head tilted slightly toward the gods, feeding on the caviar of Shakespeare. An actor must act.
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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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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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I take a simple view of life: keep your eyes open and get on with it.
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Autograph-hunting is the most unattractive manifestation of sex-starved curiosity.
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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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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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