Quotes About Olivier

Now, when I talk about Shakespeare, I can't talk too much about Gielgud or Olivier. Because nobody knows who I'm talking about.

I had dreams of winning Olivier Awards.

It's a massive club, and I am proud to sign for Chelsea, and I'm looking forward to playing.

There's posh character actors. For God's sake, Olivier was one of the greatest character actors in the world. Hamlet, Shylock, Othello - Othello! Whether you like it or not.

I have a very good contract at Chelsea, but Dortmund really wanted me.

The only shoes that look futuristic are Crocs, but they would be terrible to use in a futuristic movie.

I like thrillers. My style of movies are closer to thrillers.

The first time Adrian saw me was on tape. But you should know that this never works - never in the history of movies has someone been cast from a video.

When you make the decision to join a great club, you know there is already a great forward.

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.

I swore on screen when I got the Olivier for 'Legally Blonde,' I was so surprised. Awards where the public vote mean a lot. I'm a big Twitter fan and like talking to people who support me.

Acting is all about big hair and funny props... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it.

A fan once stopped me outside a theatre and gave me as a gift a signed photograph of Sir Laurence Olivier. It was strange, but nice, too.

In Geneva, Olivier Bonneville was becoming frustrated.

Olivier said that drama is an affair of the heart, or it's nothing, and he was right.

Maybe this was now normal for Olivier. Maybe every now and then he simply wept. Not in pain or sadness. The tears were just overwhelming memories, rendered into water, seeping out.

Did they go back to curse them?" asked Olivier. "Non," said Ruth. "To forgive them. That was the magic." The wizened Anne Lamarque in Clara's painting was smiling. Happy and free.

That Lafayette was a man of genius is a thought that cannot for a moment be entertained.

Camus had often told friends that nothing was more scandalous than the death of a child, and nothing more absurd than to die in a car accident.