I have something here for you. Your father wanted you to have this when you were old enough, but your uncle wouldn't allow it. He feared you might follow old Obi-Wan on some damn fool idealistic crusade like your father… — Alec Guinness Copy Share Image
I never knew how good it is to be unknown until now. The last time I was unknown I was too busy trying to… — Alec Guinness Copy Share Image
“The point of a knighthood for British actors is to enable them to play butlers.” — Alec Guinness Copy Share Image
“A refurbished Star Wars is on somewhere or everywhere. I have no intention of revisiting any galaxy. I shrivel inside each time it is mentioned. Twenty years ago, when the film was first shown, it had a freshness, also a sense of moral good and fun. Then I began to be uneasy at the influence it might be having. The… — Alec Guinness Copy Share
We live in an age of apologies. Apologies, fake or true, are expected from the descendants of empire builders, slave owners and persecutors of… — Alec Guinness Copy Share Image
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 craftsman, a bag of tricks, a vanity bag, a cool observer of mankind, a child and at his best a kind of unfrocked priest who, for an hour or two, can call on heaven and hell… — Alec Guinness Copy Share
Young men make wars, and the virtues of war are the virtues of young men: courage, and hope for the future. Then old men… — Alec Guinness Copy Share Image
There seems to be no end to the senseless wickedness done on this little planet in a minor solar system, and we puny mortals… — Alec Guinness Copy Share Image
