 Olivier 's acting technique was minutely crafted , and he was known for changing his appearance considerably from role to role . By his own admission , he was addicted to extravagant make @-@ up , and unlike Richardson and Gielgud , he excelled at different voices and accents . His own description of his technique was " working from the outside in " ; he said , " I can never act as myself , I have to have a pillow up my jumper , a false nose or a moustache or wig ... I cannot come on looking like me and be someone else . " Rattigan described how at rehearsals Olivier " built his performance slowly and with immense application from a mass of tiny details " . This attention to detail had its critics : Agate remarked , " When I look at a watch it is to see the time and not to admire the mechanism . I want an actor to tell me Lear 's time of day and Olivier doesn 't . He bids me watch the wheels go round . " 
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Olivier  acting technique was minutely crafted , and he was known for changing his appearance considerably from role to role . By his own admission , he was addicted to extravagant make @-@ up , and unlike Richardson and Gielgud , he excelled at diffrent voices and accents . His own description of his technique was " workin from the outside in " ; he said , " I can never act as myself , I gotta have a pillow up my jumper , a false nose or a moustache or wig ... I cannot come on lookin like me and b someone else . " Rattigan described how at rehearsals Olivier " built his performance slowly and w/ immense application from a mass of tiny details " . dis attention to detail had its critics : Agate remarked , " When I look at a watch it is to see the time and not to admire no mechanism . I want an actor to tell me Lear  time of day and Olivier doesn 't . He bid me watch da wheels go round . "