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Film Quotes by Laurence Olivier

64 quotes
Q Planes
Year: 1939

Director:
Tim Whelan*Arthur B. Woods
Q Planes
Mr. Barrett: Alright! Alright! Will you as a personal favour take that plane up?
Tony McVane: Well of course I will, you parboiled, pudding-minded, myopic deadhead!
-- Laurence Olivier in Q Planes (1939)
Spartacus
Year: 1960

Director:
Stanley Kubrick
Spartacus
Caius: Sir, allow us to pledge you the most glorious triumph of your career.
Marcus Licinius Crassus: I'm not after glory, I'm after Spartacus!
-- Laurence Olivier (as Marcus Licinius Crassus) in Spartacus (1960)
The Entertainer
Year: 1960

Director:
Tony Richardson
The Entertainer
Archie Rice: [to unresponsive audience] Don't clap too loudly, it's a very old building.
-- Laurence Olivier (as Archie Rice) in The Entertainer (1960)
The Entertainer
Year: 1960

Director:
Tony Richardson
The Entertainer
Archie Rice: Look at these eyes. I'm dead - behind these eyes. I'm dead.
-- Laurence Olivier (as Archie Rice) in The Entertainer (1960)
The Entertainer
Year: 1960

Director:
Tony Richardson
The Entertainer
Archie Rice: Old Archie isn't going to get his oats after all.
-- Laurence Olivier (as Archie Rice) in The Entertainer (1960)
The Beggar's Opera
Year: 1953

Director:
Peter Brook
The Beggar's Opera
Captain MacHeath: [Hearing a woman singing] Women!... I love the sex!... and a man who loves money might as well be contented with one guinea... as I with one woman.
-- Laurence Olivier in The Beggar's Opera (1953)
The Beggar's Opera
Year: 1953

Director:
Peter Brook
The Beggar's Opera
Captain MacHeath: Ah-hah! I love a free-hearted wench!
-- Laurence Olivier in The Beggar's Opera (1953)
The Beggar's Opera
Year: 1953

Director:
Peter Brook
The Beggar's Opera
Captain MacHeath: Dolly Trull!
Dolly Trull: Dear Captain, I never thought you'd have the imudence to remember me.
Captain MacHeath: Kiss me, you slut!
[They kiss]
Captain MacHeath: Are you as amorous as ever? I bid you're always so taken up with stealing hearts you don't allow yourself time to steal anything else.
-- Laurence Olivier in The Beggar's Opera (1953)
Oh! What a Lovely War
Year: 1969

Director:
Richard Attenborough
Oh! What a Lovely War
Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig: Grant us victory, O Lord, before the Americans get here.
-- Laurence Olivier in Oh! What a Lovely War (1969)
Carrie
Year: 1952

Director:
William Wyler
Carrie
George Hurstwood: I've gambled on your loving me. If you don't, Carrie, you must get off
[the train]
George Hurstwood: now.... But, if you do... If you do love me...
-- Laurence Olivier (as George Hurstwood) in Carrie (1952)