The big comic performance is a very obvious thing to do. The bolder, more inventive thing sometimes is the subtler, understated performance with minute shades and variations. If you start to disrespect the character you`re playing, or play it too much for laughs, that can work for a sketch, it will sell some gags, but it`s all technique. It`s like watching a juggler - you can be impressed by it, but it`s not going to touch you in any way.
- Steve Coogan(on Vivien Leigh) Apart from her looks, which were magical, she possessed beautiful poise; her neck looked almost too fragile to support her head and bore with it a sense of surprise, and something of the pride of the master juggler who can make a brilliant maneuver appear almost accidental. She also had something else: an attraction of the most perturbing nature I had ever encountered.
- Laurence Olivier