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 (as ) in Q Planes
Tony McVane: Well of course I will, you parboiled, pudding-minded, myopic deadhead!
--Laurence Olivier (as ) in Q Planes
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
Marcus Licinius Crassus: I'm not after glory, I'm after Spartacus!
--Laurence Olivier (as Marcus Licinius Crassus) in Spartacus
Archie Rice:
[to unresponsive audience] Don't clap too loudly, it's a very old building.
--Laurence Olivier (as Archie Rice) in The Entertainer
--Laurence Olivier (as Archie Rice) in 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
--Laurence Olivier (as Archie Rice) in The Entertainer
Archie Rice:
Old Archie isn't going to get his oats after all.
--Laurence Olivier (as Archie Rice) in The Entertainer
--Laurence Olivier (as Archie Rice) in The Entertainer
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 (as ) in The Beggar's Opera
--Laurence Olivier (as ) in The Beggar's Opera
Captain MacHeath:
Ah-hah! I love a free-hearted wench!
--Laurence Olivier (as ) in The Beggar's Opera
--Laurence Olivier (as ) in 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 (as ) in The Beggar's Opera
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 (as ) in The Beggar's Opera
Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig:
Grant us victory, O Lord, before the Americans get here.
--Laurence Olivier (as ) in Oh! What a Lovely War
--Laurence Olivier (as ) in Oh! What a Lovely War
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
[the train]
George Hurstwood: now.... But, if you do... If you do love me...
--Laurence Olivier (as George Hurstwood) in Carrie
