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When you're a young man, Macbeth is a character part. When you're older, it's a straight part.

~Laurence Olivier

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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.

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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.

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

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

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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.

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Lead the audience by the nose to the thought.

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

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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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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Actor

Born: May 22nd, 1907

Died: July 11th, 1989

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