"What is acting but lying and what is good lying but convincing lying?"

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Laurence Olivier

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“Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.”
“Worlds may change, galaxies disintegrate, but a woman always remains a woman”
“When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one of the works of god we call him a sportsman.”
“ZANY, n. A popular character in old Italian plays, who imitated with ludicrous incompetence the _buffone_, or clown, and was therefore the ape of an ape; for the clown himself imitated the serious characters of the play. The zany was progenitor to the specialist in humor, as we to-day have the unhappiness to know him. In the zany we see an example of creation; in the humorist, of transmission. Another excellent specimen of the modern zany is the curate, who apes the rector, who apes the bishop, who apes the archbishop, who apes the devil.”
“There are rough players and there are dirty players. I'm rough and dirty.”
“A teacher sent the following note home with a six-year-old boy 'He is too stupid to learn.' That boy was Thomas A. Edison.”
“Acting is therapeutic.”
“In the NUDE, all that is not beautiful is obscene.”

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