Quotes by Laurence Olivier

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

“Id like [people] to remember me for a diligent expert workman. I think a poet is a workman. I think Shakespeare was a workman. And Gods a workman. I dont think theres anything better than a workman.”

I dont know what is better than the work that is given to the actor - to teach the human heart the knowledge of itself.

[the only acting advice he would give] What is acting but lying and what is good lying but convincing lying?

Acting is illusion, as much illusion as magic is, and not so much a matter of being real.

I know it was wonderful but I dont know how I did it.

Have a very good reason for everything you do.

Nobody is going to pretend that I am younger than I am. Apart from anything else, it is in the papers all the damn time - every time I have a birthday.