Laurence Olivier

Nobody is going to pretend that I am younger than I am. Apart from anything else, it is in the papers all the damn time - every time I have a birthday.

My stage successes have provided me with the greatest moments outside myself, my film successes the best moments, professionally, within myself.

We have all, at one time or another, been performers, and many of us still are - politicians, playboys, cardinals and kings.

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.