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Laurence Fishburne is my mentor.
George Eads / Actor
Mentor
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I've known Laurence Fishburne for about twenty years.
Ving Rhames / Actor
Laurence
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I'm friendly with Laurence Luckinbill. He's a great man.
Joe Mantello / Actor
Friendly
Great Man Great Man
Great Man
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I can manage a prose format as long as I keep closer to Laurence Sterne than to Henry James.
David Antin / Poet
Format
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Prose
Closer
Henry
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Laurence Fishburne - he's a great actor, but he dances and sings, too? He can just do everything.
Kenya Barris /
Dances
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Developing a new designer colouring book with Laurence King has been a real passion project of mine.
Matthew Williamson / Fashion Designer
Designer
Developing
Laurence
Real Passion
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I wanted to be Laurence Olivier, basically, to be a great classical actor, and also be able to do modern things.
Stacy Keach / Actor
Able
Actors
Modern
Classical
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The good ones push their luck to the limit - like Laurence Oliver. As actor and director, he will go just as far as he can.
William Wyler / Film Director
Luck
Good Ones
Laurence
Limit
Oliver
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I played Othello, but I didn't sit around thinking how Laurence Olivier did it when he played it. That wouldn't do me any good.
Denzel Washington / Actor
Thinking
Good Thinking Me
Any
Around
Did
Played
He
How
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Othello
Sit
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But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.
Patrick Stewart / Film Actor
Children
Falling In Love
Hero
Heroes
Falling
John
Laurence
Shakespeare
Sir
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Steve Laurence is the only person that was on the first 'Tonight Show,' right to the end. He was a little high school boy, 14 years old.
Jayne Meadows / Film Actress
Tonight
Laurence
Steve
Tonight Show
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A fan once stopped me outside a theatre and gave me as a gift a signed photograph of Sir Laurence Olivier. It was strange, but nice, too.
David Alan Basche / Actor
Fans
Nice
Photograph
Theatre
Stopped
Laurence
Signed
Sir
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Yes, it's true, I've been called the Laurence Olivier of spoofs. I guess that would make Laurence Olivier the Leslie Nielsen of Shakespeare.
Leslie Nielsen / Actor
Leslie
Spoof
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Shakespeare
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On my wall, along with my favorite football players and baseball players, I had Marlon Brando and Sir Laurence Olivier. These were childhood idols.
Dennis Haysbert / Film Actor
Baseball
Brando
Childhood
Idols
Wall
Baseball Players
Football Players
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I figure there are a few actors like Marlon Brando, George C. Scott and Laurence Olivier who have been touched by the hand of God. I'm in the next bunch.
John Forsythe / Television Actor
Actors
Brando
Bunch
Hands
Next
Touched
Figure
George
Hand
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Scott
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In 'Laurence Anyways,' Nathalie Baye is Laurence's mother, and she is quite an awful mother. Still, she is the only one in the end who truly accepts her daughter.
Xavier Dolan / Actor
Daughter
Awful
Mother
Accepts
Quite
Still
Her
In The End
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She
Truly
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Reading about Queen Victoria has been a passion of mine since, as a child, I came across Laurence Housman's play 'Happy and Glorious,' with its Ernest Shepard illustrations.
A. N. Wilson / Writer
Glorious
Victoria
Queen
Illustrations
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I never thought I would sing or dance - ever, ever, ever. My idea was to be Laurence Olivier or Peter Lorre or some great classical actor. I thought I'd be a character actor.
Joel Grey / Actor
Dance
Character
Peter
Actor
Classical
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Sing
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I wouldn't write anything autobiographical. If you've lived a life like Laurence of Arabia, it might be a consideration, but otherwise it's a little bit vain, it seems to me.
James Lee Burke / Author
Arabia
Consideration
Littles
Vain
Writing
Life Me Anything
Autobiographical
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Otherwise
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To have a childhood surrounded by people like Sir Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh sounds glitzy, but for years I wanted to repress it. I couldn't take that kind of power and success.
Michael Korda / Writer
Laurence
Leigh
Repress
Sir
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There are some tremendous actors in the U.K. who have been knighted, and I've spent much of my life admiring many of them, like Laurence Olivier. So it's very flattering to be in their company.
Ian Mckellen / Actor
Admiring
Flattering
Tremendous
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During 'Manchurian Candidate' - that role originated with Laurence Harvey, and I studied everything he did. I would never be able to reproduce that performance, but I got a lot of ideas from watching it.
Liev Schreiber / Actor
Harvey
Candidate
Laurence
Originated
Reproduce
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Suffice it to say, every actor works differently. Laurence Olivier would put on his costume and when the wardrobe was right, he was in character. That sounds superficial, but it's true, and look at the results.
Michael Mann / Film Director
Results
Wardrobe
Costume
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Suffice
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Don't you understand how dramatic it is to be a comic? To be a fool, to get people to laugh at this show-off? Milton Berle could take Laurence Olivier and stick him under the table if he wanted to. And so could I.
Jerry Lewis / Comedian
Comic
Dramatic
Fool
Laughing
Milton
People
Tables
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Stick
Table
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I grew up with the great Sir Laurence Olivier, and I think it's fair to say that a lot of actors of my age were influenced by his very individual vocal delivery. He was a showman who would always play to the gallery.
Ian Holm / Actor
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Gallery
Individual
Vocal
Age Great Always
Fair
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When I came into the acting profession, it was quite hierarchical. You didn't sit at the same table as the leading actor. Sir Laurence Olivier, Sir John Gielgud... these were very, very intimidating and powerful people.
Helen Mirren / Actor
Acting
Intimidating
People
Powerful
Profession
Hierarchical
John
Laurence
Powerful People
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I studied at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, which was founded by Laurence Olivier and has alumni like Jeremy Irons and Daniel Day Lewis. It's a very erudite institution; its ethos, really, was always theatre-based.
Mark Strong / Film Actor
Alumni
Bristol
Ethos
School
Theatre
Studied
Always Day School
Founded
Old
Daniel
Institution
Irons
Jeremy
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Lewis
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The tradition has always been that in Roman films, the Romans are always British, and it's usually posh British: Laurence Olivier and his ilk. My take on all this was that it's a metaphor for empire and the end of empire.
Kevin Macdonald /
Metaphor
Posh
Empire
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Roman
Romans
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I've worked with some terrific actors. The list of guys that came on the 'Columbo' show, I mean they were world-class actors from all over the world - Oskar Werner, Laurence Harvey, Donald Pleasence, you know... foreigners.
Peter Falk / Actor
Foreigners
Harvey
Terrific
World Class
Donald
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List
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I come from a family of actors. My grandfather was like a Laurence Olivier with the Comedie Francaise. Since I was four I went every week to the Comedie Francaise. My aunt and grandmother were there, but my grandfather was a big star.
Emmanuelle Seigner / Actress
Aunt
Grandfather
Big Star
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An ideal movie would be, like - to get this to happen, I have to work so much harder - but imagine Denzel Washington, Laurence Fishburne, Jamie Foxx, Eddie Murphy... Who else? Donald Faison. Directed by Steven Spielberg. That would be awesome.
Donald Faison / Actor
Denzel
Imagine
Jamie
Murphy
Would Be
Awesome
Denzel Washington
Directed
Donald
Eddie
Eddie Murphy
Ideal
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Spielberg
Steven
Steven Spielberg
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My chief literary influences have been Paul Laurence Dunbar, Carl Sandburg, and Walt Whitman. My favorite public figures include Jimmy Durante, Marlene Dietrich, Mary McLeod Bethune, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Marian Anderson, and Henry Armstrong.
Langston Hughes / Poet
Armstrong
Figures
Franklin
Jimmy
Mary
Public Figures
Walt
Anderson
Favorite
Chief
Literary
Henry
Include
Influences
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Marlene
Mrs
Paul
Roosevelt
Whitman
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For me as a Welsh actor, Richard Burton is one of my biggest idols. And I've got so many: Peter O'Toole, Laurence Olivier and Oliver Reed. If they got 'Hunky Dory' and 'Citadel' offered to them, they would do completely different jobs on both of them.
Aneurin Barnard / Actor
Idols
Peter
Welsh
Reed
Citadel
Laurence
Offered
Oliver
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I really think the more talent people have, the more polite they are: Laurence Olivier and Alec Guinness always arrived on time and were impeccably behaved. It's only the gutter snipes who leave their lipstick on the studio floor - and that's just the men.
Antony Armstrong-Jones /
Guinness
Lipstick
Alec
Time Men Always
Behaved
Floor
Gutter
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I started being interested in acting when I heard the voices of Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud and Sir Alec Guinness. I've had the great privilege of working with Sir Derek Jacobi and Sir Anthony Hopkins. These are people who inspire the work that I do.
Kenneth Branagh / Actor
Guinness
Hopkins
Inspire
Work Great People
Alec
Anthony Hopkins
John
Laurence
Sir
Voices
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Some of those early roles were unactable. Even Laurence Olivier couldn't have done anything with them. The dialog ran to cardboard passages such as, 'I love you. You can rely on me, darling. I'll wait.' It was all I could do to keep from adding, 'With egg on my face.'
John Gavin /
Darling
Love You
Passages
Ran
Rely
Roles
Love Face Me
Adding
Love Done Face
Cardboard
Dialog
Early
Egg
Wait
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Even if I hadn't been cast as Doctor Who, my acting would probably have been influenced by William Hartnell or Patrick Troughton, Jon Pertwee, Tom Baker, and all of the other guys. Because those were the actors that I really watched every moment of, as opposed to Laurence Olivier.
Peter Capaldi / Actor
Doctor Who
Jon
Baker
Doctor
Watched
William
Influenced
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Tom
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George Clooney and Brad Pitt, with those 'Oceans' films they do, they get to work together, make a whole lot of money, and make a major film statement. Imagine if once a year, myself, Denzel Washington, Laurence Fishburne, James Earl Jones, we did some relevant film together to make a statement.
Louis Gossett, Jr. / Actor
Brad
Denzel
Relevant
Work Money Myself
Brad Pitt
Clooney
Denzel Washington
Earl
George Clooney
James
Laurence
Oceans
Once A Year
Pitt
Statement
Work Together
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There are some tremendous actors in the U.K. who have been knighted, and I've spent much of my life admiring many of them, like Laurence Olivier. So it's very flattering to be in their company. But you also end up in the company of people you don't admire, including some rather dodgy politicians.
Ian Mckellen / Actor
Admiring
Flattering
Including
Life People My Life
Tremendous
Politicians
Life My Life People
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From the ages of five to twelve, I attended the Saint Laurence O'Toole elementary school in Lawrence, a city next to Methuen, and was taught by sisters of the Catholic order of Notre Dame de Namour. I enjoyed all my subjects there. I do not remember ever learning any science, except for mathematics.
Elias James Corey /
Catholic
Elementary School
Enjoyed
Five
Notre Dame
Saint
Subjects
Taught
Twelve
Ages
Attended
Sisters
Dame
Elementary
Except
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Laurence Olivier said in an interview once that when he plays a tragedy he always aims for the funny parts, and the other way around. Because in a comedy you look for what's serious. I think that's true. Sometimes things are really funny if you're absolutely earnest. If you're really serious, it's hilarious.
Christopher Walken / Actor
Funny
Hilarious
Earnest
Play
Thinking
Tragedy
Aims
Interview
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Pop managers are fixed in the dramatic stock character repertoire too, ever since the first British pop film musical, Wolf Mankowitz's 'Expresso Bongo' of 1959, with Cliff Richard as Bongo Herbert and Laurence Harvey as his manager. The key components were cast as X parts gay, X parts Jewish and triple X opportunistic.
Peter York / Author
Character
Components
Dramatic
Fixed
Gay
Harvey
Keys
Jewish
Cliff
Herbert
Richard
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Manager
Repertoire
Stock
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Wolf
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'Hamlet' was the first movie I saw. In 1948, my mother said, 'I'm going to take you to see 'Hamlet' with Laurence Olivier.' She was worried about taking me to it because she wasn't sure I was old enough to understand it or to maybe be adversely affected by it, but I got recordings of it and memorized all the soliloquies.
Christopher Lloyd /
Affected
Worried
Hamlet
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Recordings
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The films that have influenced me most are: 'The Hustler', 'Badlands', 'Hud', 'Tender Mercies', 'Cool Hand Luke', 'A Perfect World', and 'Laurence of Arabia'. I also really like 'Fletch'. I feel like all of these films reached an honest place in regard to the human condition while also stringing together really entertaining stories.
Jeff Nichols /
Arabia
Entertaining
Human Condition
Luke
Regard
Condition
Hustler
Influenced
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Mercies
Perfect World
Reached
Tender
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