Laurence Olivier Quotes

Reading great dialogue as an actor is such a rare privilege.

I don't fool myself. I can't see myself doing Shakespeare.

I want to do theatre. I love theatre.

Comedy and drama are both challenging to me.

The most difficult thing to do is drama.

Acting is very immediate.

The talent that I was blessed with was really for the theater.

Acting, it's hit or miss. Make them laugh, make them cry; hopefully they have a little entertainment.

When I was in high school, I was so in love - as I should have been - with the performance aspect of theater and just the literal act of performing.

When I was younger, I acted in some Shakespeare stuff; I did one Shakespeare camp.

I've done classical theaters. I played Hamlet myself and Romeo.

I would rather play Hamlet with no rehearsal than TV golf.

I see myself as a performer and that applies to a Greek drama or a modern comedy.

There are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested in doing any role of Shakespeare's.

The theater was my first training ground. It taught me discipline, dedication and appreciation of hard work.

I played comedies and dramas.

I was in 20 Shakespearean plays by the time I was 20.

Drama is something I'm good at, I guess.

I've done a lot of Shakespeare as a young man; I was involved with Shakespeare and Company.

Theater is a verb before it is a noun, an act before it is a place.

I just love acting.

And when I go to see plays, I marvel at how people can do that. I've done it all my life, but I still find it mystical.

There are only three indispensable things: the audience, the actor and the author. The rest is dross.

Movies have takes. But plays are like life - you don't really get takes.

Part of what I enjoy about the theatre and acting is that sense of history.