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Laurence Olivier’s advice to an exhausted Dustin Hoffman
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The ultimate clash between new-age pretension and old-school theatrical superiority. Hoffman dragged himself onto the set looking like absolute garbage because he thought depriving himself of sleep was the only way to play a tired character. The legendary Laurence Olivier looked him dead in the eye and ruthlessly delivered the greatest insult in cinema history: 'My dear boy, why don't you just try acting?'
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