Laurence Olivier Quotes About Theatre

Quotes about: Theatre

• What is the main problem of the actor? It is to keep the audience awake, and not let them go to sleep, then wake up and go home feeling they've wasted their money.

  Laurence Olivier

  Home, Sleep, Feelings

• Use your weaknesses; aspire to the strength.

  Laurence Olivier

  Theatre, Weakness, Use

• Acting is an everlasting search for truth.

  Laurence Olivier

  Theatre, Acting, Everlasting

• I believe that in a great city, or even in a small city or a village, a great theater is the outward and visible sign of an inward and probable culture.

  Laurence Olivier

  Believe, Cities, Theatre

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

• I don't know what is better than the work that is given to the actor-to teach the human heart the knowledge of itself.

  Laurence Olivier

  Knowledge, Heart, Theatre

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

• I have to act to live.

  Laurence Olivier

  Theatre

• [May 1958, on playing Macbeth at age 30 and age 48] When you're a young man, Macbeth is a character part. When you're older, it's a straight part.

  Laurence Olivier

  Character, Men, Age

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

• Lead the audience by the nose to the thought.

  Laurence Olivier

  Theatre, Noses, Audience

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