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Art is a little bit larger than life - it's an exhalation of life and I think you probably need a little touch of madness.
— Laurence Olivier
I like thrillers. My style of movies are closer to thrillers.
— Olivier Megaton
Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult.
— Laurence Olivier
I always like to preserve my freedom. I've never really been attached to any place; that's probably why I kept moving. I like to evolve.
— Olivier Theyskens
I always say I was born too late in the world, too old.
— Olivier Martinez
Above all, you must remain open and fresh and alive to any new idea.
— Laurence Olivier
I'm not a fan of action movies. I don't watch many action movies, I don't have a lot of references except for 70s action movies or cinema noir.
— Olivier Megaton
Knitted fur is so modern and light, it makes this retro shape cool again.
— Olivier Theyskens
I don't like the actors to work together beforehand. I trust my intuition, and I like when the actors are the same.
— Olivier Dahan
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.
— Laurence Olivier
But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.
— Patrick Stewart
For a long time I have been thinking about affordable fashion - you can be disappointed when not so many people can wear your stuff.
— Olivier Theyskens
Have a very good reason for everything you do.
— Laurence Olivier
The art of persuasion. The actor persuades himself, first, and through himself, the audience.
— Laurence Olivier
As a designer, I'm not a guy that can be put in a niche.
— Olivier Theyskens
The most difficult thing to do is drama.
— Olivier Megaton
The only shoes that look futuristic are Crocs, but they would be terrible to use in a futuristic movie.
— Olivier Theyskens
I like to discover new things.
— Olivier Megaton
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
Autograph-hunting is the most unattractive manifestation of sex-starved curiosity.
— Laurence Olivier
'Taken' is a really difficult project because it was a big surprise for everybody.
— Olivier Megaton
You think you're an artist; prove it
— Laurence Olivier
Life is enthusiasm, zest.
— Laurence Olivier
When you're a young man, Macbeth is a character part. When you're older, it's a straight part.
— Laurence Olivier
Without acting, I cannot breathe.
— Laurence Olivier
It's a matter of time; you adapt to the different culture and different way of life. Human beings are adaptable.
— Olivier Martinez
No matter how well you perform, there's always somebody of intelligent opinion who thinks it's lousy.
— Laurence Olivier
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I saw A Little Romance [and] I was so in love with Laurence Olivier. I watched that movie over and over and just fell in love with love.
— Jennifer Aniston
I wanted to be Laurence Olivier, basically, to be a great classical actor, and also be able to do modern things.
— Stacy Keach
If I wasn't an actor, I think I'd have gone mad. You have to have extra voltage, some extra temperament to reach certain heights.
— Laurence Olivier
No one should be allowed to make music as if he were made of wood. One must reproduce the musical text exactly, but not play like a stone.
— Olivier Messiaen
If he was lost for a moment, he would dive straight back into its honey.
— Laurence Olivier
I am not a designer that buys vintage to be inspired.
— Olivier Theyskens
Lead the audience by the nose to the thought.
— Laurence Olivier
I believe in the theater; I believe in it as the first glamorizer of thought. It restores dramatic dynamics and their relations to life size.
— Laurence Olivier
It's probable that in the artistic hierarchy birds are the greatest musicians existing on our planet.
— Olivier Messiaen
Love is based on imagination.
— Olivier Martinez
I don't feel restricted by the language: I feel more free.
— Olivier Martinez
People who don't know me sometimes call me 'Mademoiselle.'
— Olivier Theyskens
I like Brad Pitt; I just have nothing to do with him.
— Olivier Martinez
Action movies today are going to so fast, you can't say you're going to do everything faster and faster.
— Olivier Megaton
Gabri plugged the oven and the espresso machine into the generator,' explained Olivier. 'No lights, but we have the necessities.
— Louise Penny
It's nice to have some distance with your family. As long as you're closer to them by love.
— Olivier Martinez
We used to have actresses trying to become stars; now we have stars trying to become actresses.
— Laurence Olivier
I see the city as an organism, shaped through time by the little humans having habits and doing millions of stuff in and out of it.
— Olivier Theyskens
I would prefer to listen to a French classical composer like Olivier Messiaen than to the pop hits of the day.
— Matt Groening
I was born and raised in a suburb of Paris by a working-class family.
— Olivier Martinez
Acting, is not a profession for adults.
— Laurence Olivier
What is funny is when you do a futuristic movie, you immediately get to be fashionable because you're creating something that doesn't exist.
— Olivier Theyskens
I want just to be happy and peaceful. And that's not always the case when you're married.
— Olivier Martinez
But what I really like are old Hollywood movies. Very often I watch AMC.
— Olivier Martinez
When the economy changes, it's not like you want to start eating bad-tasting chocolate.
— Olivier Theyskens
I rarely stay at home when I'm in New York. I'm always doing things. It brings you so much energy.
— Olivier Theyskens
The big difference with Juliette and the others in that film is that she goes beyond acting.
— Olivier Martinez
Scratch an actor and you'll find an actor.
— Laurence Olivier
I should be soaring away with my head tilted slightly toward the gods, feeding on the caviar of Shakespeare. An actor must act.
— Laurence Olivier
Surely we have always acted; it is an instinct inherent in all of us. Some of us are better at it than others, but we all do it.
— Laurence Olivier
The difficulty with telling stories about real people is you have to find a way of mixing yourself into the matter.
— Olivier Dahan
Acting is illusion, as much illusion as magic is, and not so much a matter of being real.
— Laurence Olivier
I could live naked ... I love it.
— Olivier Theyskens
I don't have goals in life.
— Olivier Martinez
I like David Lynch; I like Stanley Kubrick. I'm a big fan of Kubrick.
— Olivier Megaton
I am interested in the idea of 'taste.' And by 'taste,' I mean opinion, inspiration and the craft of creating a personality through fabric and design.
— Olivier Theyskens
Acting is all about big hair and funny props ... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it.
— Harold Ramis
My faith is the grand drama of my life. I'm a believer, so I sing words of God to those who have no faith.
— Olivier Messiaen
Don't be afraid to be outrageous; the critics will shoot you down anyway.
— Laurence Olivier
The actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand.
— Laurence Olivier
I'm better than Olivier.
— Robert Duvall
For at the end of the day, what matters is never the wine, it's always the moment; it's always the people.
— Olivier Magny
I take a simple view of life: keep your eyes open and get on with it.
— Laurence Olivier
Even during the golden age of fashion, you had haute couture houses where the designers didn't have money.
— Olivier Theyskens
What is sure is that the satellite view of our world and its evolution is now a common reality.
— Olivier Theyskens
We have all, at one time or another, been performers, and many of us still are - politicians, playboys, cardinals and kings.
— Laurence Olivier
For every person is a gaping space waiting to be filled with God.
— Olivier Clement
I never analyze why I was with one woman instead of another.
— Olivier Martinez
Also, I have found that I really like to work in English. It's very strange because it's exactly the opposite of what I thought it would be like.
— Olivier Martinez
We always see the point of an iceberg. So I've always accepted the idea that people - they don't necessarily know everything I am.
— Olivier Theyskens
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
When Princess Diana got married, I was a very little kid, I think. I remember her dress, and I found the dress amazing when I was a kid.
— Olivier Theyskens
My sense of designing is a mix of intuition and intellectual control.
— Olivier Theyskens
Use your weaknesses; aspire to the strength.
— Laurence Olivier
I joined Arsenal to play with Robin van persie - not replace him
— Olivier Giroud
I'm not a fan of action movies.
— Olivier Megaton
My stage successes have provided me with the greatest moments outside myself, my film successes the best moments, professionally, within myself.
— Laurence Olivier
Shakespeare - The nearest thing in incarnation to the eye of God.
— Laurence Olivier
My dream as a youngster was to be like Olivier. To be a great stage actor. To be a great Shakespearean actor. To me that is the Olympics of acting.
— Armand Assante
I didn't understand the advantages of staying active until I was about 27.
— Olivier Theyskens
I really believe great actors, even with disease and age, can be great.
— Olivier Martinez
The humility to prepare and the self-confidence to bring it off.
— Laurence Olivier
I've admired historical clothes like Victorian gowns since I was a child, and it's what motivated me to go into fashion.
— Olivier Theyskens
Birds are the first and the greatest performers.
— Olivier Messiaen
To be on the set with the actors, with the location, every day changes; every day something can go wrong.
— Olivier Megaton
I don't read the critics.
— Olivier Dahan