Laurence Olivier Quotes About Acting
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What is acting but lying and what is good lying but convincing lying?
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Acting, is not a profession for adults.
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Acting is an everlasting search for truth.
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I am far from sure when I am acting and when I am not or, should I more frankly put it, when I am lying and when I am not. For what is acting but lying and what is good acting but convincing lying?
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A sexual athlete is not likely to find sufficient energy for work of another athletic kind, and the acting of great parts most definitely was and always will be athletic, depending on inner if not on visible energy. Members of other professions that depend on the expenditure of physical energy must, I believe, find similar difficulties when attempting to double up on their energies. One has often heard that the most magnificent specimens of boxers, wrestlers and champions in almost every branch of athletic sport prove to be disappointing upon the removal of that revered jockstrap.
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Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult.
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Without acting, I cannot breathe.
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Acting is illusion, as much illusion as magic is - and not so much a matter of being real.
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