My Week with Marilyn (2011)
Kenneth Branagh: Sir Laurence Olivier
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Quotes
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Sir Laurence Olivier : Remember boy, when it comes to women, you're never too old for humiliation.
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Sir Laurence Olivier : Marilyn, my darling, you are an angel and I kiss the hem of your garment but why can't you get here on time for the love of FUCK?
Marilyn Monroe : Oh, you have that word in England too, ha?
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Sir Laurence Olivier : She's quite wonderful. No training, no craft, no guile, just pure instinct. Astonishing.
Colin Clark : You should tell her that.
Sir Laurence Olivier : Oh, I will. But she won't believe me. That's probably what makes her great, yet it's certainly what makes her so profoundly unhappy.
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Sir Laurence Olivier : Trying to teach Marilyn how to act is like teaching Urdu to a badger!
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Sir Laurence Olivier : [reciting while images of Marilyn play] You do look, my son, in a moved sort, as if you were dismayed. Be cheerful, sir. Our revels new are ended. We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.
Colin Clark : Prospero.
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Sir Laurence Olivier : I think directing a movie is the best job ever created, but Marilyn has cured me of ever wanting to do it again.
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Paula Strasberg : We're talking about the difference between the truth and artificial crap.
Sir Laurence Olivier : We're in absolute agreement. Acting is all about truth, and if you can fake that, you'll have a jolly good career.
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Vivien Leigh : I didn't think she would be so beautiful. Oh, she *shines* on that screen.
Sir Laurence Olivier : Oh, darling. Puss, don't upset yourself. You are ten times the actress she will ever be.
Vivien Leigh : Oh, if you could see yourself. The way you watch her.
Sir Laurence Olivier : Oh, poor thing, you're imagining things.
Vivien Leigh : I hope she makes your life hell.
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Sir Laurence Olivier : I thought working with Marilyn would make me feel young again. But I look dead in the rushes. Dead behind the eyes. I wanted to renew myself through her but all I see reflected in that magnificent face is my own inadequacy. You know, I admire Marilyn. I really do. Despite her behavior. She has taken everything Hollywood can throw at her and triumphed. That takes some bloody guts. An actress has to be pretty tough to get even a tenth as far as she has.
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Sir Laurence Olivier : You in the union?
Colin Clark : No.
Sir Laurence Olivier : Then you can't have a job on the film.
Colin Clark : Well, how do I get into the union?
Sir Laurence Olivier : By getting a job on the film. It's called a closed shop.
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Sir Laurence Olivier : Christ! Pills to sleep, pills to wake up. Pills to calm her down, pills to give her energy. No wonder she's permanently ten feet underwater.
Colin Clark : Maybe she's scared.
Sir Laurence Olivier : We're all scared. I spent half of my professional life in abject bloody terror! It's what actors do!
Colin Clark : But you have the training to deal with it.
Sir Laurence Olivier : Oh, I wouldn't buy the little girl lost act if I were you. Though heaven knows it's tempting.
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Sir Laurence Olivier : Why not simply rely on your natural talents?
Marilyn Monroe : So then are you saying you don't want me to act?
Sir Laurence Olivier : Marilyn, will you just try to be sexy. Isn't that what you do?
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Sir Laurence Olivier : It's only a readthrough, Paula.
Paula Strasberg : Marilyn has to begin finding the character.
Sir Laurence Olivier : Oh, the character is on the page.
Paula Strasberg : The words, maybe. Not the character.
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Sir Laurence Olivier : What are you doing here?
Colin Clark : You said there might be a job on your film.
Sir Laurence Olivier : Have a cigarette. Keep the pack.
Colin Clark : Thank you, sir.
Sir Laurence Olivier : There won't be a film unless Miss Monroe gets her *splendid* posterior out of bed.
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Hugh Perceval : The House Committee is threatening to withhold Miller's passport. They say he's a Communist. No Arthur. No Marilyn.
Sir Laurence Olivier : I'll have a word with the American Ambassador. I'm taking him to see Vivian's play on Thursday.
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Milton Greene : Listen Larry, accept Marilyn on her own terms and you'll be okay. Try to change her and she will drive you crazy. Trust me.
Sir Laurence Olivier : Dear Christ, what have I got myself into?
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Sir Laurence Olivier : She should be on time, like everyone else.
Milton Greene : She's a star.
Sir Laurence Olivier : I'm a fucking star.
Arthur Jacobs : She's the greatest piece of ass on earth with tits like that - you make allowances.
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Sir Laurence Olivier : What is Marilyn doing on the phone with my Third *fucking* Assistant?
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Sir Laurence Olivier : I don't care if he *fucks* her sideways. Perhaps it will calm her down.
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Sir Laurence Olivier : I tried my best to change her, but she remains brilliant despite me.