Sir Laurence Olivier Quotes in My Week with Marilyn (2011)

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Sir Laurence Olivier Quotes:

  • Sir Laurence Olivier: Remember boy, when it comes to women, you're never too old for humiliation.

  • Sir Laurence Olivier: She's quite wonderful. No training, no craft, no guile, just pure instinct. Astonishing.

    Colin Clark: You should tell her that.

    Sir Laurence Olivier: Oh, I will. But she won't believe me. That's probably what makes her great, yet it's certainly what makes her so profoundly unhappy.

  • Sir Laurence Olivier: Marilyn, my darling, you are an angel and I kiss the hem of your garment but why can't you get here on time for the love of FUCK?

    Marilyn Monroe: Oh, you have that word in England too, ha?

  • Sir Laurence Olivier: It's like teaching Urdu to a badger.

  • Sir Laurence Olivier: [reciting while images of Marilyn play] You do look, my son, in a moved sort, as if you were dismayed. Be cheerful, sir. Our revels new are ended. We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.

    Colin Clark: Prospero.

  • Sir Laurence Olivier: I think directing a movie is the best job ever created, but Marilyn has cured me of ever wanting to do it again.

  • Sir Laurence Olivier: You in the union?

    Colin Clark: No.

    Sir Laurence Olivier: Then you can't have a job on the film.

    Colin Clark: Well, how do I get into the union?

    Sir Laurence Olivier: By getting a job on the film. It's called a closed shop.

  • Lady Jane Clark: We're talking about the difference between the truth and artificial crap.

    Sir Laurence Olivier: We're in absolute agreement. Acting is all about truth, and if you can fake that, you'll have a jolly good career.

  • Sir Laurence Olivier: The character is on the page.

  • Sir Laurence Olivier: I don't know. Pills to wake her up, pills to put her to sleep...

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