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The office of drama is to exercise, possibly to exhaust, human emotions. The purpose of comedy is to tickle those emotions into an expression of light relief; of tragedy, to wound them and bring the relief of tears. Disgust and terror are the other points of the compass.
Laurence Olivier |
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Author Details: Type: Actor Quotes Category: English Actor Quotes Date of Birth: May 22, 1907 Date of Death: July 11, 1989 Nationality: English Amazon: Laurence Olivier on Amazon |
Related Authors: Charlie Chaplin John Cleese Michael Caine Tom Felton Orlando Bloom Rupert Grint Oliver Reed Peter Ustinov |
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Select Laurence Olivier Quotations:
Have a very good reason for everything you do.
Laurence Olivier Lead the audience by the nose to the thought. Laurence Olivier I take a simple view of life: keep your eyes open and get on with it. Laurence Olivier I'd like people to remember me for a diligent expert workman. I think a poet is a workman. I think Shakespeare was a workman. And God's a workman. I don't think there's anything better than a workman. Laurence Olivier 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. Laurence Olivier 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 |
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Quote Keywords: Bring, Comedy, Compass, Disgust, Drama, Emotions, Exercise, Exhaust, Expression, Human, Into, Light, Office, Other, Points, Possibly, Purpose, Relief, Tears, Terror, Them, Those, Tickle, Tragedy, Wound |
Dictionary Links: Bring, Comedy, Compass, Disgust, Drama, Exercise, Exhaust, Expression, Human, Into, light, Office, Other, Possibly, Purpose, Relief, Terror, Them, Those, Tickle, Tragedy, Wound |
All Laurence Olivier Quotations: Acting is a masochistic form of... Have a very good reason for... I believe that in a great... I don't know what is better... I often think that could we... I should be soaring away with... I take a simple view of... I'd like people to remember me... If he was lost for a... Lead the audience by the nose... Living is strife and torment, disappointment... My stage successes have provided me... Surely we have always acted; it... The actor should be able to... The office of drama is to... We ape, we mimic, we mock... We have all, at one time... When you're a young man, Macbeth... |
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