#olivier

Don't you understand how dramatic it is to be a comic? To be a fool, to get people to laugh at this show-off? Milton Berle could take Laurence Olivier and stick him under the table if he wanted to. And so could I. ↗

— Jerry Lewis

#comic #could #dramatic #fool #get

Olivier was another case of a genius, who couldn't understand why anybody would have any trouble doing this, because for him it came so easily. ↗

— James Lipton

#any #anybody #because #came #case

Yes, it's true, I've been called the Laurence Olivier of spoofs. I guess that would make Laurence Olivier the Leslie Nielsen of Shakespeare. ↗

— Leslie Nielsen

#called #guess #i #laurence #laurence olivier

Acting is all about big hair and funny props... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it. ↗

— Harold Ramis

#acting #big #big hair #brando #funny

I found him perhaps the least terrifying man I've ever met in the theater—because at first glance I could see through him and he could see through me, and he knew that I knew that he knew. Look, love, I've been bullied all my life by bigger experts than Larry Olivier, I can assure you, and he's just got to get in line. ↗

— Peter O'Toole

#olivier #theatre #life

Time was the invention of men who would confine the ocean and bottle the wind ↗

— Kassandra Sims

#men

If you watch Olivier's interviews, he has this reptilian tongue; it seems too big for his mouth. My pursuit of that became distracting, so I let it go. The thrill was finding the right pair of glasses. ↗

— Julian Sands

#big #distracting #finding #glasses #go

Olivier said that drama is an affair of the heart, or it's nothing, and he was right. ↗

— Pam Gems

#drama #heart #nothing #olivier #right

I hope you’re not planning on kicking me,” he said, not even bothering to look up from his book, “as hard as you did those doors.” “I will,” I said, “if the next words out of your mouth are Pierce, you just need to relax. ↗

— Meg Cabot

#john #pierce-oliviera #humor

Time was the invention of men who would confine the ocean and bottle the wind. Eternity is too short to fulfill the promise of love my sould holds for you. ↗

— Kassandra Sims

#love