Richard III:
And therefore since I cannot prove a lover,To entertain these fair well-spoken days,I am determined to prove a villain,and hate the idle pleasures of these days.
--Laurence Olivier (as Richard III) in Richard III
--Laurence Olivier (as Richard III) in Richard III
Richard III:
Conscience is a word that cowards use.
--Laurence Olivier (as Richard III) in Richard III
--Laurence Olivier (as Richard III) in Richard III
Richard III:
I'll drown more sailors than the mermaid shall,I'll slay more glazers than the basilisk,I'll play the orator as well as Nestor,Deceive more slyly than Ulysses could,And, like a Sinon, take another Troy,I can add colours to the chameleon,Change shapes with Proteus for advantages,And set the murderous Machiavel to school.Can I do this,and cannot get a crown?Tut were it farther off,I'll pluck it down.
--Laurence Olivier (as Richard III) in Richard III
--Laurence Olivier (as Richard III) in Richard III
Richard III:
Look how my ring encompasseth thy finger. Even so thy breast encloseth my poor heart. Wear both of them, for both of them are thine.
--Laurence Olivier (as Richard III) in Richard III
--Laurence Olivier (as Richard III) in Richard III
Richard III:
Shine out, fair sun, till I have bought a glass; that I may see my shadow as I pass.
--Laurence Olivier (as Richard III) in Richard III
--Laurence Olivier (as Richard III) in Richard III
The Mahdi:
[in horror: seeing Gordon's decapitated head on the end of a pole] Take it away! Where is Abdullah? I forbade it, I forbade it!
--Laurence Olivier (as ) in Khartoum
--Laurence Olivier (as ) in Khartoum
The Mahdi:
It is sometimes wise, Gordon Pasha, to provide the man with a few sunny hours of fraudulent hope so that when night comes he will have a more perfect inward vision of the truth of his hopelessness.
--Laurence Olivier (as ) in Khartoum
--Laurence Olivier (as ) in Khartoum
Kiril Lakota:
[the Soviet representative has just informed Kiril of the conditions of his release, namely that he keep his mouth shut about conditions in the USSR] I cannot accept these conditions.
Piotr Ilyich Kamenev: They have been accepted for you.
--Laurence Olivier (as Piotr Ilyich Kamenev) in The Shoes of the Fisherman
Piotr Ilyich Kamenev: They have been accepted for you.
--Laurence Olivier (as Piotr Ilyich Kamenev) in The Shoes of the Fisherman
Anna:
Attractive isn't she?
Graham Weir: What do you want to say it in that silly voice for?
--Laurence Olivier (as ) in Term of Trial
Graham Weir: What do you want to say it in that silly voice for?
--Laurence Olivier (as ) in Term of Trial
Julius Caesar:
[about Spartacus] Did you fear him, Crassus?
Marcus Licinius Crassus: Not when I fought him, I knew he could be beaten. But now I fear him, even more than I fear you.
Julius Caesar: Me?
Marcus Licinius Crassus: Yes, my dear Caesar, you.
--Laurence Olivier (as Marcus Licinius Crassus) in Spartacus
Marcus Licinius Crassus: Not when I fought him, I knew he could be beaten. But now I fear him, even more than I fear you.
Julius Caesar: Me?
Marcus Licinius Crassus: Yes, my dear Caesar, you.
--Laurence Olivier (as Marcus Licinius Crassus) in Spartacus
