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| Laurence Olivier
Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult. Have a very good reason for everything you do. 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. I often think that could we creep behind the actor's eyes, we would find an attic of forgotten toys and a copy of the Domesday Book. I take a simple view of life: keep your eyes open and get on with it. 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. I'm rather bored by the subject-meaning me. It's a sort of a yoke, but at times you know, a yoke is a kind of comfort. And it's always there. If he was lost for a moment, he would dive straight back into its honey. It's just like a nursery game of make-believe. There is a spirit in us that makes our brass to blare and our cymbals crash-all, of course, supported by the practicalities of trained lung power, throat, heart, guts. When you're a young man, Macbeth is a character part. When you're older, it's a straight part. |
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