Laurence olivier

I take a simple view of life: keep your eyes open and get on with it.

Lead the audience by the nose to the thought.

My stage successes have provided me with the greatest moments outside myself, my film successes the best moments, professionally, within myself.

If he was lost for a moment, he would dive straight back into its honey.

We ape, we mimic, we mock. We act.

I often think that could we creep behind the actor's eyes, we would find an attic of forgotten toys and a copy of the Domesday Book.

Living is strife and torment, disappointment and love and sacrifice, golden sunsets and black storms. I said that some time ago, and today I do not think I would add one word.

Surely we have always acted; it is an instinct inherent in all of us. Some of us are better at it than others, but we all do it.

I should be soaring away with my head tilted slightly toward the gods, feeding on the caviar of Shakespeare. An actor must act.

Have a very good reason for everything you do.