It took me two years to walk around a chair with ease; it took me another two years to learn how to laugh onstage - and I had to learn everything.
Laurence OlivierRead
Living is strife and torment, disappointment and love and sacrifice, golden sunsets and black storms. I said that some time ago, and today I do not think I would add one word.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Life is filled with both struggles and joys, encompassing a range of emotional experiences.
In this quote, Laurence Olivier reflects on the complexities of life, suggesting that it is a mixture of challenges and rewards. He acknowledges both the painful and beautiful moments that characterize human existence, asserting that his previous sentiments on this matter remain unchanged, emphasizing the enduring truth that life is an intricate tapestry of experiences.
Themes
LifeStrugglesJoyEmotionsExperience
In practice
Example use cases
During a motivational speech about resilience, one could quote Olivier to illustrate the duality of life.
More from Laurence Olivier
All quotes →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 OlivierRead
Work is life for me, it is the only point of life - and with it there is almost religious belief that service is everything.
Laurence OlivierRead
I don't know what is better than the work that is given to the actor - to teach the human heart the knowledge of itself.
Laurence OlivierRead
Acting is an everlasting search for truth.
Laurence OlivierRead
I'd like people to remember me for a diligent expert workman. I think a poet is a workman. I think Shakespeare was a workman. And God's a workman. I don't think there's anything better than a workman.
Laurence OlivierRead
Similar quotes
In the stormy current of life characters are weights or floats which at one time make us glide along the bottom, and at another maintain us on the surface.
Hippolyte TaineRead
I walked all those miles, I learned all those lessons. It's as if my new life was the gift I got at the end of a long struggle.
Cheryl StrayedRead
Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.
Jean PaulRead
Tell them I've had a wonderful life.
Ludwig WittgensteinRead
Since people are going to be living longer and getting older, they'll just have to learn how to be babies longer.
Andy WarholRead
In today's world, everything seems like some sort of long audition.
Bob FosseRead