Laurence Olivier Quotes About Acting

Quotes about: Acting

• Acting is an everlasting search for truth.

  Laurence Olivier

  Theatre, Acting, Everlasting

• Acting is illusion, as much illusion as magic is - and not so much a matter of being real.

  Laurence Olivier

  Real, Magic, Acting

  "Famous Actors and Actresses on the American Stage". Book by William C. Young, 1975.

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

  Laurence Olivier

  Funny, Humorous, Acting

  In Time 3 July 1978, p. 33

• I am far from sure when I am acting and when I am not or, should I more frankly put it, when I am lying and when I am not. For what is acting but lying and what is good acting but convincing lying?

  Laurence Olivier

  Funny, Lying, Humorous

• A sexual athlete is not likely to find sufficient energy for work of another athletic kind, and the acting of great parts most definitely was and always will be athletic, depending on inner if not on visible energy. Members of other professions that depend on the expenditure of physical energy must, I believe, find similar difficulties when attempting to double up on their energies. One has often heard that the most magnificent specimens of boxers, wrestlers and champions in almost every branch of athletic sport prove to be disappointing upon the removal of that revered jockstrap.

  Laurence Olivier

  Sports, Sex, Believe

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

  Laurence Olivier

  Lying, Acting, Convincing

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

• Without acting, I cannot breathe.

  Laurence Olivier

  Acting, Breathe

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

• Acting, is not a profession for adults.

  Laurence Olivier

  Acting, Adults, Profession

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