"The applause of all but very good men……" — Alec Guinness
"The applause of all but very good men is no more than the precise measure of their possible hostility."
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Alec Guinness
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16 Quotes by Alec Guinness
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A superb tenor voice, like a silver trumpet muffled in silk.
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A person who is keen to shake your hand usually has something up his sleeve.
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I don't know what else I could do but pretend to be an actor.
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That's no moon. It's a space station
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Young men make wars, and the virtues of war are the virtues of young men: courage, and hope for the…
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I shrivel up every time someone mentions Star Wars to me.
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Failure has a thousand explanations. Success doesn't need one.
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Much of the day I have busied myself making notes on the small parts in Shakespeare, often nameless, which are…
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An Actor is an interpreter of other men's words, often a soul which wishes to reveal itself to the world…
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Best performance of the year: Aston Villa v. Milan, September 1994
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Essentially, I'm a small-part actor who's been lucky enough to play leading roles for most of his life.
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An actor is at his best a kind of unfrocked priest who, for an hour or two, can call on…
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