What is the main problem of the actor? It is to keep the audience awake, and not let them go to sleep, then wake up and go home feeling they’ve wasted their money.
Laurence Olivier Quotes
The office of drama is to exercise, possibly to exhaust, human emotions. The purpose of comedy is to tickle those emotions into an expression of light relief; of tragedy, to wound them and bring the relief of tears. Disgust and terror are the other points of the compass.
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Laurence Olivier (23)
Birth: | 22nd May, 1907 |
Death: | 11th July, 1989 |
Nationality: | British |
Profession: | Actor, Director, Producer |
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