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> [My contribution to film has always been negligible.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alec-guinness/my-contribution-to-film-has-always-been-negligible/)

[Alec Guinness](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alec-guinness/)

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## More by Alec Guinness

> [Styling is designing for obsolescence.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alec-guinness/styling-is-designing-for-obsolescence/)

[Alec Guinness](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alec-guinness/)

> [That's no moon. It's a space station](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alec-guinness/that-s-no-moon-it-s-a-space-station/)

[Alec Guinness](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alec-guinness/)

> [I never knew how good it is to be unknown until now. The last time I was unknown I was too busy trying to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alec-guinness/i-never-knew-how-good-it-is-to-be-unknown-until-now-the-last-time-i/)

[Alec Guinness](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alec-guinness/)

> [Best performance of the year: Aston Villa v. Milan, September 1994](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alec-guinness/best-performance-of-the-year-aston-villa-v-milan-september-1994/)

[Alec Guinness](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alec-guinness/)

> [“The point of a knighthood for British actors is to enable them to play butlers.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alec-guinness/the-point-of-a-knighthood-for-british-actors-is-to-enable-them-to/)

[Alec Guinness](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alec-guinness/)

> [Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alec-guinness/who-is-more-foolish-the-fool-or-the-fool-that-follows-it/)

[Alec Guinness](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alec-guinness/)

> [“A refurbished Star Wars is on somewhere or everywhere. I have no intention of revisiting any galaxy. I shrivel inside each time it is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alec-guinness/a-refurbished-star-wars-is-on-somewhere-or-everywhere-i-have-no/)

[Alec Guinness](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alec-guinness/)

> [We live in an age of apologies. Apologies, fake or true, are expected from the descendants of empire builders, slave owners and persecutors of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alec-guinness/we-live-in-an-age-of-apologies-apologies-fake-or-true-are-expected/)

[Alec Guinness](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alec-guinness/)

> [An Actor is an interpreter of other men's words, often a soul which wishes to reveal itself to the world but dare not, a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alec-guinness/an-actor-is-an-interpreter-of-other-men-s-words-often-a-soul-which/)

[Alec Guinness](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alec-guinness/)

> [Young men make wars, and the virtues of war are the virtues of young men: courage, and hope for the future. Then old men…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alec-guinness/young-men-make-wars-and-the-virtues-of-war-are-the-virtues-of-young/)

[Alec Guinness](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alec-guinness/)

> [There seems to be no end to the senseless wickedness done on this little planet in a minor solar system, and we puny mortals…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alec-guinness/there-seems-to-be-no-end-to-the-senseless-wickedness-done-on-this/)

[Alec Guinness](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alec-guinness/)

> [I don't know what else I could do but pretend to be an actor.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alec-guinness/i-don-t-know-what-else-i-could-do-but-pretend-to-be-an-actor/)

[Alec Guinness](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alec-guinness/)

> [“I neither suffer myself, nor other fools, gladly.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alec-guinness/i-neither-suffer-myself-nor-other-fools-gladly/)

[Alec Guinness](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alec-guinness/)

> [A person who is keen to shake your hand usually has something up his sleeve.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alec-guinness/a-person-who-is-keen-to-shake-your-hand-usually-has-something-up-his/)

[Alec Guinness](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alec-guinness/)

> [An actor is totally vulnerable. His total personality is exposed to critical judgment - his intellect, his bearing, his diction, his whole appearance. In…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alec-guinness/an-actor-is-totally-vulnerable-his-total-personality-is-exposed-to/)

[Alec Guinness](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alec-guinness/)

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