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The human being is flesh and consciousness, body and soul; his heart is an abyss which can only be filled by that which is godly.


Olivier Messiaen

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LAURENCE OLIVIER, SIR I don't know what is better than the work that is given to the actor - to teach the human heart the ...
LAURENCE OLIVIER, SIR Living is strife and torment, disappointment and love and sacrifice, golden sunsets and black storms...
LAURENCE OLIVIER, SIR If he was lost for a moment, he would dive straight back into its honey.
LAURENCE OLIVIER SIR I like Paris. My problem is I don't like Parisians."
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LAURENCE OLIVIER SIR I don't know what is better than the work that is given to the actor - to teach the human heart the ...
LAURENCE OLIVIER SIR I believe in the theater; I believe in it as the first glamorizer of thought. It restores dramatic d...
LAURENCE OLIVIER SIR Use your weaknesses; aspire to the strength.
SIR LAWRENCE OLIVIER My dear boy, why don't you try acting? (on the set of 'Marathon Man', to Dustin Hoffman, who had ann...
LAURENCE OLIVIER SIR It should be said that my parents had married for love. The affection and devotion they had shared w...
OLIVIER A. BLANCHARD We're fragile things, Harb. It doesn't look like it but we are. We're here one minute, and just like...
OLIVIER A. BLANCHARD Use your weaknesses; aspire to the strength.
LAURENCE OLIVIER, SIR