Laurence Olivier Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.
-
I am proud to have played a small part in ensuring that no veteran's heroic service will be cast aside due to prejudice.
-
I just never, in my career, got into doing a lot of press.
-
I wasn't into sports, but I was really into Shakespeare.
-
All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
-
The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the true religion which existed before.
-
When the government takes more money out of the pockets of middle class Americans, entrepreneurs, and businesses, it lessens the available cash flow for people to spend on goods and services, less money to start businesses, and less money for businesses to expand - i.e. creating new jobs and hiring people.
-
Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.
-
I was not very keen on joining the family business... there were 14 family members working together, and it worried me that I would not have enough individuality.
-
And that's what happened to that show. It started ordinary, it started really rather bad. As I said, there was a review that said, really, we think the commercials are better than the show. And then it gradually developed.
-
I'm not going to beat the cancer. I tried really hard... but sometimes you're just not going to beat the thing... I wanted to walk off the stage and say anything I thought was important; I had my hour.
-
When National Guardsmen shot four unarmed students at Kent State, virtually the entire system of higher education shuddered and stopped.
-
You ain't got the answers Sway!
-
I have no fear nor shrinking; I have seen death so often that it is not strange or fearful to me.
-
The New Women! I could barely recognize them as being of the same sex as myself…They are satiated by everything, hungry for nothing. They are what I wanted to be; they are what I worked for them to be: and now I see them, I hate them.
-
We are all-so to speak-intellectuals about something.
-
Upon the bank, she stood In the cool Of spent emotions. She felt, among the leaves, The dew Of old devotions.
-
All mankind, right down to those you most despise, are your neighbors.
-
When language is used without true significance, it loses its purpose as a means of communication and becomes an end in itself.
-
Some people just come in, do it and they know it's right. It turns out better than you imagined it was going to sound. When that happens, you take it as a gift.
-
Once you finish a book, you let it go out into the world to seek its fortune.
-
Never. The shot is too big for the cannon.
