Alec Guinness Quotes

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• A superb tenor voice, like a silver trumpet muffled in silk.
• A person who is keen to shake your hand usually has something up his sleeve.
• I don't know what else I could do but pretend to be an actor.
• That's no moon. It's a space station
• Young men make wars, and the virtues of war are the virtues of young men: courage, and hope for the future. Then old men make…
• I shrivel up every time someone mentions Star Wars to me.
• Failure has a thousand explanations. Success doesn't need one.
• Much of the day I have busied myself making notes on the small parts in Shakespeare, often nameless, which are rewarding to the actor if…
• The applause of all but very good men is no more than the precise measure of their possible hostility.
• 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,…
• Best performance of the year: Aston Villa v. Milan, September 1994
• Essentially, I'm a small-part actor who's been lucky enough to play leading roles for most of his life.
• An actor is at his best a kind of unfrocked priest who, for an hour or two, can call on heaven and hell to mesmerize…
• An actor is totally vulnerable. His total personality is exposed to critical judgment - his intellect, his bearing, his diction, his whole appearance. In short,…
• Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?
• 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…

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