The top 10 most inspiring quotes by Laurence Olivier
- Don’t waste your time striving for perfection; instead, strive for excellence – doing your best.
- Striving for perfection is the greatest stopper there is. You’ll be afraid you can’t achieve it. It’s your excuse to yourself for not doing anything. Instead, strive for excellence, doing your best.
- The humility to prepare and the self-confidence to bring it off.
- Have a very good reason for everything you do.
- Use your weaknesses; aspire to the strength.
- The art of persuasion. The actor persuades himself, first, and through himself, the audience.
- I should be soaring away with my head tilted slightly toward the gods, feeding on the caviar of Shakespeare. An actor must act.
- I don’t know what is better than the work that is given to the actor-to teach the human heart the knowledge of itself.
- Shakespeare – The nearest thing in incarnation to the eye of God.
- 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 (1907-1989) was a seminal English actor and director, renowned for his profound impact on 20th-century theatre and film. Born in Dorking, Surrey, he trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama and quickly rose to prominence in London’s West End.
Olivier’s career was marked by his versatility, excelling in Shakespearean roles such as Hamlet, Othello, and Henry V. His film career was equally illustrious, with standout performances in “Wuthering Heights” (1939), “Rebecca” (1940), and “Hamlet” (1948), the latter earning him Academy Awards for Best Actor and Best Picture.
Olivier also made significant contributions to the theatre as a founding director of the National Theatre in London. His personal life, including marriages to actresses Jill Esmond, Vivien Leigh, and Joan Plowright, was often as dramatic as his roles. Knighted in 1947 and later ennobled, Olivier remains a towering figure in performing arts history.
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