John Gielgud Quotes
- Ingrid Bergman speaks five languages and can’t act in any of them.
- I am all in favour of spontaneity, providing it is carefully planned and ruthlessly controlled.
- One mustn't allow acting to be like stoc kbroker - you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go…
- Being another character is more interesting than being yourself.
- It is very hard to cast a number of plays adequately from the same company of actors without several parts being miscast.
- Most of my friends seem to be either dead, extremely deaf or living on the wrong side of Kent.
- Your English style will no doubt put all the other gentlemen to bed. I speak figuratively, of course.
- I think the young actor who really wants to act will find a way ... to keep at it and seize every opportunity that comes…
- One's self-image is very important because if that's in good shape, then you can do anything, or practically anything.
- Acting is half shame, half glory. Shame at exhibiting yourself, glory when you can forget yourself.
- One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down…