George Hurstwood: You still have time, Carrie. Move on now. Find someone... to love. It's a great experience, Carrie.


--Laurence Olivier (as George Hurstwood) in Carrie

Marcus Licinius Crassus: Do you eat oysters?
Antoninus: When I have them, master.
Marcus Licinius Crassus: Do you eat snails?
Antoninus: No, master.
Marcus Licinius Crassus: Do you consider the eating of oysters to be moral and the eating of snails to be immoral?
Antoninus: No, master.
Marcus Licinius Crassus: Of course not. It is all a matter of taste, isn't it?
Antoninus: Yes, master.
Marcus Licinius Crassus: And taste is not the same as appetite, and therefore not a question of morals.
Antoninus: It could be argued so, master.
Marcus Licinius Crassus: My robe, Antoninus. My taste includes both snails and oysters.


--Laurence Olivier (as Marcus Licinius Crassus) in Spartacus

Marcus Licinius Crassus: One of the disadvantages of being a Patrician is that occasionally you are obliged to act like one.


--Laurence Olivier (as Marcus Licinius Crassus) in Spartacus

Marcus Licinius Crassus: The enemies of the state are known, arrests are being made, the prisons begin to fill.


--Laurence Olivier (as Marcus Licinius Crassus) in Spartacus

Marcus Publius Glabrus: How were you able to get my appointment without Gracchus knowing?
Marcus Licinius Crassus: I fought fire with oil. I purchased the Senate behind his back.


--Laurence Olivier (as Marcus Licinius Crassus) in Spartacus

Narrator: A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for sorrow will not show his head. For never was a story of more woe Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.


--Laurence Olivier (as ) in Romeo and Juliet

Narrator: Two households, both alike in dignity / In fair Verona, where we lay our scene / From ancient grudge break to new mutiny / Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. From forth the fatal loins of these two foes / A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life / Whose misadventured piteous overthrows / Do with their death bury their parents' strife.


--Laurence Olivier (as ) in Romeo and Juliet

Piotr Ilyich Kamenev: Every day we ask ourselves what can we do about it before the nightmare turns itself into a mushroom cloud blotting out the sun.


--Laurence Olivier (as Piotr Ilyich Kamenev) in The Shoes of the Fisherman

Piotr Ilyich Kamenev: I took you to pieces like a watch. And put you together again. It was a very intimate experience. I have never been able to forget it. May I ask you a question?
Kiril Lakota: You never hesitated before.
Piotr Ilyich Kamenev: [laughs] That is true.
[Holds up a file]
Piotr Ilyich Kamenev: This is you. Political prisoner 103592R, Kiril Pavlovich Lakota. All of you is here, from the day you were born until now. Except for the answer to one question. What have you learned in twenty years of confinement?
Kiril Lakota: That is a big question, Piotr Ilyich.
Piotr Ilyich Kamenev: The answer is important to me, you know.
Kiril Lakota: What I have learned? I have learned that without some kind of loving a man withers like a grape on a dying vine.
Piotr Ilyich Kamenev: Is that all?
Kiril Lakota: [Chuckles] I am trying to learn more.
Piotr Ilyich Kamenev: Have you learned enough to face freedom?
Kiril Lakota: [Long Pause] I have been free for a long time. Not entirely, perhaps. But you have not answered my question. Why have you brought me here?
Piotr Ilyich Kamenev: I want to show you a world gone mad.


--Laurence Olivier (as Piotr Ilyich Kamenev) in The Shoes of the Fisherman

Richard III: A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse!


--Laurence Olivier (as Richard III) in Richard III