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Olivier Quotes By Olivier Theyskens

A black dress is beautiful! It's a good choice. It could be the wrong choice at certain events or situations, but it's very rare that you see a girl who looks bad in a black dress. — Olivier Theyskens

Olivier Quotes By Olivier Clement

People never cease to project on to God their individual and collective obsessions, so that they can appropriate and make use of him. But they ought to understand that God cannot be apprehended from without, as if he were an object, for with him there is no outside nor can the Creator be set side by side with the creature. — Olivier Clement

Olivier Quotes By Olivier Theyskens

I am not a designer that buys vintage to be inspired. — Olivier Theyskens

Olivier Quotes By Olivier Theyskens

The only shoes that look futuristic are Crocs, but they would be terrible to use in a futuristic movie. — Olivier Theyskens

Olivier Quotes By Jerry Lewis

Don't you understand how dramatic it is to be a comic? To be a fool, to get people to laugh at this show-off? Milton Berle could take Laurence Olivier and stick him under the table if he wanted to. And so could I. — Jerry Lewis

Olivier Quotes By Olivier J. Blanchard

Ultimately, the purpose of a certification is to establish a particular level of proficiency in a discipline. Unfortunately, "social media" in and of itself, is not a discipline. Digital crisis management, on the other hand, is. So are digital customer service and online community management. This means that a certification program that focuses on social media without addressing each specific business function adapted to social media won't end up certifying anyone in much of anything. — Olivier J. Blanchard

Olivier Quotes By Olivier Theyskens

I really hated school. I had the feeling I was losing a lot of time. — Olivier Theyskens

Olivier Quotes By Olivier Magny

I love these words that just can't be translated from language to language. They seem dignified, grounded, battling against the imperialism of reality. — Olivier Magny

Olivier Quotes By Olivier Megaton

I like to discover new things. — Olivier Megaton

Olivier Quotes By Julian Sands

If you watch Olivier's interviews, he has this reptilian tongue; it seems too big for his mouth. My pursuit of that became distracting, so I let it go. The thrill was finding the right pair of glasses. — Julian Sands

Olivier Quotes By Laurence Olivier

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

Olivier Quotes By Laurence Olivier

Scratch an actor and you'll find an actor. — Laurence Olivier

Olivier Quotes By Olivier Theyskens

Even during the golden age of fashion, you had haute couture houses where the designers didn't have money. — Olivier Theyskens

Olivier Quotes By Olivier Theyskens

I don't think couture will die. But it should have no pretension that it will conquer the world. It's not something that will disappear because all you need is a thread and a needle to start making something couture. — Olivier Theyskens

Olivier Quotes By Laurence Olivier

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

Olivier Quotes By Louise Penny

You know Gabri, he wears his heart on his sleeve.' In fact, there were times Olivier wondered whether Gabri hadn't been born inside out. — Louise Penny

Olivier Quotes By Olivier Theyskens

When I was young, watching historical movies made me feel absolutely sublime. But the first few times I visited costume museums, I was really disappointed because it was not at the level I saw in movies. It was not the level of the image I'd imagined. — Olivier Theyskens

Olivier Quotes By Olivier Martinez

If you want to be happy, live discreetly. Does that make sense in English? — Olivier Martinez

Olivier Quotes By Iain Pears

She had lost herself in this old work, her personality dissolving into it, so that she had been set free. The immortality of the soul lies in its dissolution; this was the cryptic comment that so frustrated Olivier and which Julien had only ever grasped as evidence for the history of a particular school of thought. He had known all about its history, but Julia knew what it meant. He found the realization strangely reassuring. — Iain Pears

Olivier Quotes By Patrick Stewart

But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud. — Patrick Stewart

Olivier Quotes By Louise Penny

Olivier looked at him blankly. But the Chief Inspector had seen that look before. It was, in fact, almost impossible to look blank. Unless the person wanted to. A blank face to the Chief Inspector meant a frantic mind. — Louise Penny

Olivier Quotes By Laurence Olivier

Surely we have always acted; it is an instinct inherent in all of us. Some of us are better at it than others, but we all do it. — Laurence Olivier

Olivier Quotes By Iain Pears

Olivier took a deep breath, then turned and bowed in farewell. Gersonides nodded in return, then thought of something.
"The manuscript you brought me, by that bishop. It argues that understanding is more important than movement. That action is virtuous only if it reflects pure comprehension, and that virtue comes from the comprehension, not the action."
Olivier frowned. "So?"
"Dear boy, I must tell you a secret."
"What?"
"I do believe it is wrong. — Iain Pears

Olivier Quotes By Anthony Hopkins

I worked with Lawrence Olivier some years ago. He was a great mentor. — Anthony Hopkins

Olivier Quotes By Louise Penny

Maybe this was now normal for Olivier. Maybe every now and then he simply wept. Not in pain or sadness. The tears were just overwhelming memories, rendered into water, seeping out. — Louise Penny

Olivier Quotes By Laurence Olivier

The actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand. — Laurence Olivier

Olivier Quotes By Marius Olivier

Taking into account the different approaches to defining the term 'missionary' we can define a missionary as a Christian believer who takes the gospel to those who have never heard it before. — Marius Olivier

Olivier Quotes By Olivier Theyskens

I've admired historical clothes like Victorian gowns since I was a child, and it's what motivated me to go into fashion. — Olivier Theyskens

Olivier Quotes By Olivier A. Blanchard

We're fragile things, Harb. It doesn't look like it but we are. We're here one minute, and just like that, we're gone. The Peacemakers (The Nemesis Engines) — Olivier A. Blanchard

Olivier Quotes By Olivier Martinez

Everybody has some talents - we all have an art side and some talent - but you have some areas where you are better than others. My area is acting, I guess. I hope. — Olivier Martinez

Olivier Quotes By Laurence Olivier

Above all, you must remain open and fresh and alive to any new idea. — Laurence Olivier

Olivier Quotes By Laurence Olivier

Acting, is not a profession for adults. — Laurence Olivier

Olivier Quotes By Olivier Martinez

I quit after a bad car accident. The thing about boxing is that you can be a star for five or six years, but when you go back to the old life, it's tough. — Olivier Martinez

Olivier Quotes By Olivier Martinez

I'll always be a foreigner. — Olivier Martinez

Olivier Quotes By Ian McKellen

There are some tremendous actors in the U.K. who have been knighted, and I've spent much of my life admiring many of them, like Laurence Olivier. So it's very flattering to be in their company. — Ian McKellen

Olivier Quotes By Olivier Martinez

Imagination creates some big monsters. — Olivier Martinez

Olivier Quotes By Laurence Olivier

Life is enthusiasm, zest. — Laurence Olivier

Olivier Quotes By Emmanuelle Seigner

I come from a family of actors. My grandfather was like a Laurence Olivier with the Comedie Francaise. Since I was four I went every week to the Comedie Francaise. My aunt and grandmother were there, but my grandfather was a big star. — Emmanuelle Seigner

Olivier Quotes By Laurence Olivier

The art of persuasion. The actor persuades himself, first, and through himself, the audience. — Laurence Olivier

Olivier Quotes By Olivier Theyskens

I feel super lucky to be living in New York. I love the city, I love the energy. I always loved it. I had pictures of New York in my bedroom when I was young. — Olivier Theyskens

Olivier Quotes By Olivier Messiaen

The human being is flesh and consciousness, body and soul; his heart is an abyss which can only be filled by that which is godly. — Olivier Messiaen

Olivier Quotes By Louise Penny

Nice hair.' Olivier turned to Clara, hoping to break the tension.
'Thank you.' Clara ran her hands through it, making it stand on end as though she'd just had a scare.
'You're right.' Olivier turned to Myrna. 'She looks like a frightened doughboy from the trenches of Vimy. Not many people could carry off that look. Very bold, very new millennium. I salute you.'
Clara narrowed her eyes and glared at Myrna whose smile went from ear to ear. — Louise Penny

Olivier Quotes By Olivier Assayas

One of the greatest films ever made by a director who, almost forty years after his death, is still an intimidating and disturbing figure in the history of cinema. Visconti's films stand outside the borders of the medium, by their ambition, by their scope, uniting past and present, individuals and history, both deeply human and transcendent. The Leopard, his most translucent, towering achievement, embodies everything the best filmmaking can be, grand, profound, entertaining, physical and metaphysical, sharp as a blade and melodramatic. It stays with you, forever. — Olivier Assayas

Olivier Quotes By Olivier Clement

St. Seraphim, like Francis of Assisi, talked to animals. One day two nuns saw him deep in conversation with a bear. The bears of the Russian forests are very ferocious, and the two women were terrified. But Seraphim reassured them and showed them that he who is sanctified lives in peace with all creation, just as Adam did before the Fall. — Olivier Clement

Olivier Quotes By Ian Buruma

Islam may soon become the majority religion in countries whose churches have been turned more and more into tourist sites, apartment houses, theatres, and places of entertainment. The French scholar Olivier Roy is right: Islam is now a European religion. — Ian Buruma

Olivier Quotes By Laurence Olivier

I'd like people to remember me for a diligent expert workman. I think a poet is a workman. I think Shakespeare was a workman. And God's a workman. I don't think there's anything better than a workman. — Laurence Olivier

Olivier Quotes By Olivier Megaton

Action movies today are going to so fast, you can't say you're going to do everything faster and faster. — Olivier Megaton

Olivier Quotes By Laurence Olivier

You think you're an artist; prove it — Laurence Olivier

Olivier Quotes By Olivier Martinez

Otherwise, to be a movie star, it's a lot of compromise and also a lot of headaches. You can't do what you want. You become a prisoner of your fame. This happened to me in France and I don't want it. — Olivier Martinez

Olivier Quotes By Laurence Olivier

Use your weaknesses; aspire to the strength. — Laurence Olivier

Olivier Quotes By Olivier Martinez

I don't feel restricted by the language: I feel more free. — Olivier Martinez

Olivier Quotes By Christopher Walken

Laurence Olivier said in an interview once that when he plays a tragedy he always aims for the funny parts, and the other way around. Because in a comedy you look for what's serious. I think that's true. Sometimes things are really funny if you're absolutely earnest. If you're really serious, it's hilarious. — Christopher Walken

Olivier Quotes By Olivier Martinez

It's like all the signs were telling me that I shouldn't be a boxer, so I quit. — Olivier Martinez

Olivier Quotes By Tom Goodman-Hill

'Spamalot' was a blip! I've never done anything else like that, and yet it's the only time I've ever been nominated for an Olivier award! — Tom Goodman-Hill

Olivier Quotes By Olivier Magny

Most people whom you may view as wine experts are usually just good at one thing: winemakers are good at making wine, sommeliers at talking about it, and wine journalists at drinking it for free. — Olivier Magny

Olivier Quotes By Olivier Megaton

People who watch 'Transporter' are maybe asking a little less about reality, being serious, and so on. — Olivier Megaton

Olivier Quotes By Olivier Martinez

I don't have goals in life. — Olivier Martinez

Olivier Quotes By Karlie Kloss

It's an interesting sign of the times that models are being booked for jobs and covers because of their following on a social media platform, I walked in the Balmain show for Olivier Rousteing. If you rounded up all the numbers of the majority of his line-up, there would be upwards of 10, 15 million followers. — Karlie Kloss

Olivier Quotes By Olivier Dahan

Cannes is a sort of gladiators' arena, and that's the fun part of it. When you accept to come here to open the festival, you know you are going to be criticised. I have no problem with the fact that I expose myself and the movie, and it's normal that I can disagree with the way some people feel. — Olivier Dahan

Olivier Quotes By Olivier Martinez

When I was a kid, I was watching the movies my parents wanted to watch. I came from a working class family, not specifically educated, so we were watching popular movies. My dad liked cowboy movies, so we were watching cowboy movies. Some of them were amazing. It's a genre of movie I like very much. — Olivier Martinez

Olivier Quotes By Olivier Messiaen

No one should be allowed to make music as if he were made of wood. One must reproduce the musical text exactly, but not play like a stone. — Olivier Messiaen

Olivier Quotes By Laurence Olivier

Art is a little bit larger than life - it's an exhalation of life and I think you probably need a little touch of madness. — Laurence Olivier

Olivier Quotes By Olivier Messiaen

I give bird songs to those who dwell in cities and have never heard them, make rhythms for those who know only military marches or jazz, and paint colors for those who see none. — Olivier Messiaen

Olivier Quotes By James Lipton

Olivier was another case of a genius, who couldn't understand why anybody would have any trouble doing this, because for him it came so easily. — James Lipton

Olivier Quotes By Olivier Clement

For every person is a gaping space waiting to be filled with God. — Olivier Clement

Olivier Quotes By Louise Penny

Gabri plugged the oven and the espresso machine into the generator,' explained Olivier. 'No lights, but we have the necessities. — Louise Penny

Olivier Quotes By Louise Penny

As the boys screamed and hauled off handfuls of mulch, Olivier had slowly, deliberately, gently taken Gabri's hand and held it before gracefully lifting it to his lips. The boys had watched, momentarily stunned, as Olivier had kissed Gabri's manure-stained hand with his manure-stained lips. The boys had seemed petrified by this act of love and defiance. But just for a moment. Their hatred triumphed and soon their attack had re-doubled. — Louise Penny

Olivier Quotes By Steven Morrissey

The Brits are ghastly. I never would accept a Brit. It would be like Laurence Olivier being happy getting a TV Times award. — Steven Morrissey

Olivier Quotes By Olivier Todd

[As part of Camus' refusal to debate his political enemies publicly after their vitriolic responses to the publication of 'The Rebel'] At this point, the least sentence I might say will be used in a way that disgusts me in advance ... It would be impossible for me in that case to continue expressing myself with academic politeness. I am mistaken for a deliberately polite man whom one may insult in all safety. — Olivier Todd

Olivier Quotes By Olivier Megaton

Especially on 'Taken,' 'Taken' was not a big success the day of its release. It was released in France first, and it didn't do bad, but not as good as it did in the U.S. — Olivier Megaton

Olivier Quotes By Olivier Clement

It is therefore essential to let the 'heart spirit' settle like calm water. Then it becomes a tranquil lake in which the sky is reflected, in which the face of Christ can be seen. — Olivier Clement

Olivier Quotes By Olivier Martinez

I wanted to become a champ - I was surrounded by champs in my family and in my neighborhood - and because of this stupid accident, I lost my opportunity. — Olivier Martinez

Olivier Quotes By Olivier Theyskens

When I was very young, I wanted to be a girl. I was jealous that girls got to be princesses and wear skirts. It tormented me. When I was 6, I even heard that you could change your sex, and I was very intrigued until the moment I realized that if I changed into a girl, I would be an ugly girl, and this is the last thing I wanted to be. — Olivier Theyskens

Olivier Quotes By Armand Assante

My dream as a youngster was to be like Olivier. To be a great stage actor. To be a great Shakespearean actor. To me that is the Olympics of acting. — Armand Assante

Olivier Quotes By Olivier Martinez

But when you work with the director and the real person who is playing opposite you, it changes everything. You are almost in a working session. I was very comfortable, and that's maybe what helped me to get the part. — Olivier Martinez

Olivier Quotes By Olivier Martinez

I want just to be happy and peaceful. And that's not always the case when you're married. — Olivier Martinez

Olivier Quotes By Michael Mann

Suffice it to say, every actor works differently. Laurence Olivier would put on his costume and when the wardrobe was right, he was in character. That sounds superficial, but it's true, and look at the results. — Michael Mann

Olivier Quotes By Olivier Theyskens

My first collection was made from sheets that my grandmother, who lived in Normandy, had been collecting for a long time. There are a lot of flea markets in that part of France, and she knew what I liked. — Olivier Theyskens

Olivier Quotes By Olivier Megaton

I never wanted to be a director. I came into this industry by the little door, so I never learned anything; I never went to school. Actors will tell you I'm very precise. I just have the intuition of doing things. — Olivier Megaton

Olivier Quotes By Olivier Martinez

When you're a foreigner, at the beginning you are far away from the culture. Then, little by little, you start to interact with people, have friends, have a life, and then you feel more comfortable. — Olivier Martinez

Olivier Quotes By Laurence Olivier

I should be soaring away with my head tilted slightly toward the gods, feeding on the caviar of Shakespeare. An actor must act. — Laurence Olivier

Olivier Quotes By Olivier Martinez

The big difference with Juliette and the others in that film is that she goes beyond acting. — Olivier Martinez

Olivier Quotes By Olivier Theyskens

People who don't know me sometimes call me 'Mademoiselle.' — Olivier Theyskens

Olivier Quotes By Olivier Magny

For at the end of the day, what matters is never the wine, it's always the moment; it's always the people. — Olivier Magny

Olivier Quotes By Olivier Martinez

Who knows what happens tomorrow? We'll find it tomorrow. — Olivier Martinez

Olivier Quotes By Olivier Theyskens

I am interested in the idea of 'taste.' And by 'taste,' I mean opinion, inspiration and the craft of creating a personality through fabric and design. — Olivier Theyskens

Olivier Quotes By Olivier Martinez

I see my friends, my family, my cousins work all day long for very little money, and if I have this problem of not being able to wall on the streets, it's not a big deal. — Olivier Martinez

Olivier Quotes By Laurence Olivier

I often think that could we creep behind the actor's eyes, we would find an attic of forgotten toys and a copy of the Domesday Book. — Laurence Olivier

Olivier Quotes By Olivier Clement

Prayer and Theology are inseparable. True Theology is the adoration offered by the intellect. The intellect clarifies the moment of prayer, but only prayer can give it the fervor of the Spirit. Theology is light, prayer is fire. — Olivier Clement

Olivier Quotes By Olivier Theyskens

When I started at Ricci, I did street wear for very cool, young girls, but the price point was for the fourth floor of Bergdorf Goodman next to Carolina Herrera. My cool girls cannot afford it. — Olivier Theyskens

Olivier Quotes By Laurence Olivier

We used to have actresses trying to become stars; now we have stars trying to become actresses. — Laurence Olivier

Olivier Quotes By Laurence Olivier

In the great wealth, the great firmament of your nation's generosities this particular choice may perhaps be found by future generations as a trifle eccentric, but the mere fact of it ... the prodigal, pure, human kindness of it ... must be seen as a beautiful star in that firmament which shines upon me at this moment, dazzling me a little, but filling me with warmth of the extraordinary elation, the euphoria that happens to so many of us at the first breath of the majestic glow of a new tomorrow. — Laurence Olivier

Olivier Quotes By Julia Stiles

I always loved how people like Jon Voight and Laurence Olivier shocked you every time they came on-screen. They were so different each time. That's what I hope to do with acting - be the chameleon and not get stuck in a type. — Julia Stiles

Olivier Quotes By Olivier Megaton

I'm a painter. I was a graffiti artist, and I painted all over the world. — Olivier Megaton

Olivier Quotes By Olivier Magny

We need to get acquainted with mediocrity to notice greatness. — Olivier Magny

Olivier Quotes By Bob Dylan

If I wanted to be a painter, I might think about trying to be like Van Gogh, or if I was an actor, act like Laurence Olivier. If I was an architect, there's Frank Gehry. But you can't just copy somebody. If you like someone's work, the important thing is to be exposed to everything that person has been exposed to. — Bob Dylan

Olivier Quotes By Laurence Olivier

Lead the audience by the nose to the thought. — Laurence Olivier

Olivier Quotes By Olivier Theyskens

In fashion, we don't often know the prices. We don't have time to go into the stores. — Olivier Theyskens

Olivier Quotes By Laurence Olivier

Autograph-hunting is the most unattractive manifestation of sex-starved curiosity. — Laurence Olivier

Olivier Quotes By Peter O'Toole

I found him perhaps the least terrifying man I've ever met in the theater - because at first glance I could see through him and he could see through me, and he knew that I knew that he knew. Look, love, I've been bullied all my life by bigger experts than Larry Olivier, I can assure you, and he's just got to get in line. — Peter O'Toole