#olivier

I'm better than Olivier. ↗

Don't you understand how dramatic it is to be a comic? To be a fool, to get people to laugh at this show-off? Milton Berle could take Laurence Olivier and stick him under the table if he wanted to. And so could I. ↗

— Jerry Lewis

#comic #could #dramatic #fool #get

Olivier was another case of a genius, who couldn't understand why anybody would have any trouble doing this, because for him it came so easily. ↗

— James Lipton

#any #anybody #because #came #case

Yes, it's true, I've been called the Laurence Olivier of spoofs. I guess that would make Laurence Olivier the Leslie Nielsen of Shakespeare. ↗

— Leslie Nielsen

#called #guess #i #laurence #laurence olivier

Time was the invention of men who would confine the ocean and bottle the wind. Eternity is too short to fulfill the promise of love my sould holds for you. ↗

— Kassandra Sims

#love

Laurence Olivier said in an interview once that when he plays a tragedy he always aims for the funny parts, and the other way around. Because in a comedy you look for what's serious. I think that's true. Sometimes things are really funny if you're absolutely earnest. If you're really serious, it's hilarious. ↗

— Christopher Walken

#aims #always #around #because #comedy

I played Othello, but I didn't sit around thinking how Laurence Olivier did it when he played it. That wouldn't do me any good. ↗

— Denzel Washington

#around #did #good #how #i

I worked with Lawrence Olivier some years ago. He was a great mentor. ↗

— Anthony Hopkins

#great #i #lawrence #mentor #olivier

Time was the invention of men who would confine the ocean and bottle the wind ↗

— Kassandra Sims

#men

Olivier said that drama is an affair of the heart, or it's nothing, and he was right. ↗