Film Quotes by Laurence Olivier
64 quotes
Year: 1955
Director:
Laurence Olivier
Director:
Laurence Olivier
Richard III:
And therefore since I cannot prove a lover,To entertain these fair well-spoken days,I am determined to prove a villain,and hate the idle pleasures of these days.
--
Laurence Olivier
(as Richard III)
in
Richard III
(1955)
Year: 1955
Director:
Laurence Olivier
Director:
Laurence Olivier
Richard III:
Conscience is a word that cowards use.
--
Laurence Olivier
(as Richard III)
in
Richard III
(1955)
Year: 1955
Director:
Laurence Olivier
Director:
Laurence Olivier
Richard III:
I'll drown more sailors than the mermaid shall,I'll slay more glazers than the basilisk,I'll play the orator as well as Nestor,Deceive more slyly than Ulysses could,And, like a Sinon, take another Troy,I can add colours to the chameleon,Change shapes with Proteus for advantages,And set the murderous Machiavel to school.Can I do this,and cannot get a crown?Tut were it farther off,I'll pluck it down.
--
Laurence Olivier
(as Richard III)
in
Richard III
(1955)
Year: 1955
Director:
Laurence Olivier
Director:
Laurence Olivier
Richard III:
Look how my ring encompasseth thy finger. Even so thy breast encloseth my poor heart. Wear both of them, for both of them are thine.
--
Laurence Olivier
(as Richard III)
in
Richard III
(1955)
Year: 1955
Director:
Laurence Olivier
Director:
Laurence Olivier
Richard III:
Shine out, fair sun, till I have bought a glass; that I may see my shadow as I pass.
--
Laurence Olivier
(as Richard III)
in
Richard III
(1955)
Year: 1966
Director:
Basil Dearden*Eliot Elisofon
Director:
Basil Dearden*Eliot Elisofon
The Mahdi:
[in horror: seeing Gordon's decapitated head on the end of a pole] Take it away! Where is Abdullah? I forbade it, I forbade it!
--
Laurence Olivier
in
Khartoum
(1966)
Year: 1966
Director:
Basil Dearden*Eliot Elisofon
Director:
Basil Dearden*Eliot Elisofon
The Mahdi:
It is sometimes wise, Gordon Pasha, to provide the man with a few sunny hours of fraudulent hope so that when night comes he will have a more perfect inward vision of the truth of his hopelessness.
--
Laurence Olivier
in
Khartoum
(1966)
Year: 1968
Kiril Lakota:
[the Soviet representative has just informed Kiril of the conditions of his release, namely that he keep his mouth shut about conditions in the USSR] I cannot accept these conditions.
Piotr Ilyich Kamenev: They have been accepted for you.
Piotr Ilyich Kamenev: They have been accepted for you.
--
Laurence Olivier
(as Piotr Ilyich Kamenev)
in
The Shoes of the Fisherman
(1968)
Year: 1962
Director:
Peter Glenville
Director:
Peter Glenville
--
Laurence Olivier
in
Term of Trial
(1962)
Year: 1960
Director:
Stanley Kubrick
Director:
Stanley Kubrick
Julius Caesar:
[about Spartacus] Did you fear him, Crassus?
Marcus Licinius Crassus: Not when I fought him, I knew he could be beaten. But now I fear him, even more than I fear you.
Julius Caesar: Me?
Marcus Licinius Crassus: Yes, my dear Caesar, you.
Marcus Licinius Crassus: Not when I fought him, I knew he could be beaten. But now I fear him, even more than I fear you.
Julius Caesar: Me?
Marcus Licinius Crassus: Yes, my dear Caesar, you.
--
Laurence Olivier
(as Marcus Licinius Crassus)
in
Spartacus
(1960)