Jim Dale Quotes

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• You cannot learn anything from success, you only learn from failure.
• 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, because…
• I'm still a kid inside, and adventure is adventure wherever you find it.
• Good acting is consistency of performance.
• 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 some…
• 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 off…
• 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 if…
• The joy about the recording is that you are your own boss. You don't have a director telling you how to do it.
• I remember certain people in the audience laughing and I wanted to ask: 'What are you laughing at? This isn't funny.' Now I realize that…
• We talk about theatre museums filled with old costumes and things. What we also need is a theatre museum of the old routines on videotape.…
• 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 few,…
• A career in the theatre demands so much commitment.
• 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 lot…
• There is no spray can called 'Instant Stardom,' only talent can keep you at the top.
• 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 people.
• 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…

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