At one point I would have liked the role of Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights (1970). Then I saw it done by Laurence Olivier on television and he was so good that I decided to forget about it.
Oliver Reed
Laurence Olivier might have been a much better actor on film if he hadn`t had that flippant attitude. [He] was a remarkable actor, but he was entirely missing the point consistently. He felt that film was an inferior form.
Daniel Day-Lewis
[On The Boys from Brazil (1978)] "I felt, Laurence Olivier felt, friends of mine like Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon felt, that I was good in this part. Some critics seem unwilling to accept actors when they break what they think is the mold or the image....
Gregory Peck
If a man is touched by genius, he is not an ordinary person. He doesn`t lead an ordinary life. He has extremes of behaviour which you understand and you just find a way not to be swept overboard by his demons. - On Laurence Olivier
Joan Plowright
[on Laurence Olivier] If you had to worship something mortal on Earth, I would go and bow twice a day to wherever Olivier was standing.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
Cable from Laurence Olivier to Richard Burton at the height of the Cleopatra (1963) scandal: "Make up your mind, dear heart. Do you want to be a great actor or a household word?" Burton replied: "Both."
Richard Burton
[When asked what he thought about the John Holmes porn trial] "You know, someone once asked me that and I said the day that Laurence Olivier drops his pants on the screen is the day that I will support adult actors, and then I saw the movie The Betsy (197...
Gregory Peck
I would speak to Vanessa`s father [Sir Michael Redgrave], or Laurence Olivier or John Gielgud, and they told me that, at a certain point, I had to make a choice. I could be a star and maybe make lots of money, or I could change roles all the time and have...
Franco Nero
People mistake me for Laurence Fishburne all the time. And he always gets mistaken for me. (And why not? We`ve both starred in Spike Lee movies, haven`t we?) Even when we`re standing together, people have called him by my name and me by his. A woman recen...
Samuel Jackson
One of the people I got to know years ago, which was a great privilege, was Laurence Olivier. He was like a laser - that was his power. And the only actor I`ve met since who had that same quality of laser-like determination is Russell Crowe. The first day...
Anthony Hopkins
[On Laurence Olivier after the death of the only acting peer of the realm]: "Olivier made me laugh more as an actor (in eccentric comedy parts) more than anyone else. In my case, I love him in comedy and am not always sure about him in tragedy.
Alec Guinness
Their offensive line is good and (Laurence) Maroney is a great back. He`s going to make you pay if you give him any room. We gave him a lot of room.
George Hall
I wouldn`t write anything autobiographical. If you`ve lived a life like Laurence of Arabia, it might be a consideration, but otherwise it`s a little bit vain, it seems to me.
James Lee Burke
Anyone inclined to view Paul Laurence Dunbar as an apologist for the South or as a white-identified `Uncle Tom` would be quickly disabused of that view by reading the caustic, eloquent attacks on white racism that Dunbar published in newspapers,
David Bradley
Anyone inclined to view Paul Laurence Dunbar as an apologist for the South or as a white-identified `Uncle Tom` would be quickly disabused of that view by reading the caustic, eloquent attacks on white racism that Dunbar published in newspapers,
David Bradley
At one point I would have liked the role of Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights (1970). Then I saw it done by Laurence Olivier on television and he was so good that I decided to forget about it.
Oliver Reed
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