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Shakespeare—the nearest thing in incarnation to the eye of God.

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What is acting but lying, and what is good acting but convincing lying?

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On the role of King Lear:
When you've the strength for it, you're too young; when you've the age you're too old. It's a bugger, isn't it?

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Acting is illusion, as much illusion as magic is — and not so much a matter of being real. I mean, I would probably shock Lee Strasberg.

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If I wasn't an actor, I think I'd have gone mad. You have to have extra voltage, some extra temperament to reach certain heights. Art is a little bit larger than life — it's an exhalation of life and I think you probably need a little touch of madness.

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On being praised for his performance in the play "The Dance of Death" about misery of marriage:
It wasn't difficult. There isn't a line that I haven't said to one of my three wives.

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I think that bloody old National nearly killed me.

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Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult.

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Laurence Olivier

Laurence Olivier
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Born: May 22, 1907
Died: July 11, 1989 (aged 82)
Bio: Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier of Brighton, Kt was an English actor who, along with his contemporaries Ralph Richardson and John Gielgud, dominated the British stage of the mid-20th century.
Known for:
  1. Rebecca (1940)
  2. Wuthering Heights (1939)
  3. Hamlet (1948)
  4. The Prince and the Showgirl (1957)
  5. Spartacus (1960)

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