I'd rather get a good clean laugh with good material, than an easy laugh by swearing or shocking. That's not clever or comedic, anybody can get a laugh that way, it's too easy. — Jim Dale Copy Share Image
I was always the clown in school. I had a personal put down sense of humor. I wasn't vindictive. I didn't make fun of… — Jim Dale Copy Share Image
I only travel to good material, a good director and a good company. I won't work in another country for a year any longer,… — Jim Dale Copy Share Image
I'd get more applause than some because I was just seventeen. If they didn't clap at the end of my act I would limp… — Jim Dale Copy Share Image
When I was nine, we'd take a bus to the seaside. Coming back, we'd take turns entertaining, singing songs and the like. I tried… — Jim Dale Copy Share Image
It's a little like casting out hundreds of fishing lines into the audience. You start getting little bites, then more, then you hook a… — Jim Dale Copy Share Image
The joy about the recording is that you are your own boss. You don't have a director telling you how to do it. — Jim Dale Copy Share Image
We talk about theatre museums filled with old costumes and things. What we also need is a theatre museum of the old routines on… — Jim Dale Copy Share Image
You've got to love the villain if you have to play him. You've got to find something that you can live with in yourself… — Jim Dale Copy Share Image
I feel if some kid has sat down and felt I'm important enough to write two pages of words to and take up a… — Jim Dale Copy Share Image
