Laurence Olivier Quotes
If I wasn't an actor, I think I'd have gone mad. You have to have extra voltage, some extra temperament to reach certain heights. Art is a little bit larger than life - it's an exhalation of life and I think you probably need a little touch of madness.
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There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.
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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
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Psoriasis is an autoimmune disease, and I'm sensitive.
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I know I should be Wonder Woman. They need an international actress - a fresh face. They need a woman who's tall, athletic and dark-haired - and an actress who can play the part. That's me. So, I'm coming to L.A. to work hard and meet the industry. And if 'Wonder Woman' comes together, I want it.
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I am a citizen of the world.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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No one ought to be under any illusion that Cheney privately thinks himself a failure.
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During my childhood, I was surrounded by actors, and all I remember is they were fun to be around. That kind of sticks.
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Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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I've learned to be more accepting of myself. I'm 37, not 18, and I've got the lines to prove it. I try to remind myself that a girl can have it all, just not all at once.
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Library campaigners are not prepared to stand by and watch something they cherish be dismantled brick by brick.
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There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.
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Animals are companions on this planet, not necessarily our feedbags.
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My granddad was a hard worker, and my dad is, too. It was instilled in me as a kid. I never got pocket money; I had to earn it. I had two paper rounds before school, not just one. Wherever I worked, whether it was at football, in the pub, I'd do whatever was asked of me - and more.
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I went to church when I was younger, but it was never something pushed down my throat or anything, which is a good thing. I found out for myself where I belonged.
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Excellence always sells.
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Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
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A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.
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We would like to ease the life of the Palestinians. I prepared a new plan that we call a positive agenda.
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I suppose that was my first bit of acting, the acquisition of an English accent. It was really just an attempt to be understood.
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I think we should all live the moment. But you also have to think ahead. You have to think, 'Am I going to be happy with this five, ten years from now? Is it going to let me evolve and grow, or am I going to grow to one day wish I had never done it?' Sometimes you just have to think a little bit ahead.
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I saw a star slide down the sky Blinding the north as it went by Too buring and too quick to hold Too lovely to be bought or sold Good only to make wishes on And then forever to be gone
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If I wasn't an actor, I think I'd have gone mad. You have to have extra voltage, some extra temperament to reach certain heights. Art is a little bit larger than life - it's an exhalation of life and I think you probably need a little touch of madness.
