Acting is all about big hair and funny props... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it.

"Olivier took a deep breath, then turned and bowed in farewell. Gersonides nodded in return, then thought of something.

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.

Acting is all about big hair and funny props... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it Brando knew it.

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.