Laurence Olivier

The actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand.

On resentment at his forced retirement from the stage after he was fired by Britain's National Theater, I should be soaring away with my head tilted slightly toward the gods, feeding on the caviar of Shakespeare.... An actor must act.

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.

Surely we have always acted; it is an instinct inherent in all of us. Some of us are better at it than others, but we all do it.

We ape, we mimic, we mock. We act.