Actors Quote by John Gielgud

You can be good in a good movie, you can be good in a bad movie, you can be bad in a bad movie,…

— John Gielgud

Acting is half shame, half glory. Shame at exhibiting yourself, glory when you can forget yourself.

— John Gielgud

I'm sure there isn't an after-life. If there were, Ivor Novello would have got a message to us.

— John Gielgud

One mustn't allow acting to be like stoc kbroker - you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to…

— John Gielgud

Usually one must go to a bowling alley to meet a woman of your stature.

— John Gielgud

I think the young actor who really wants to act will find a way ... to keep at it and seize every opportunity that…

— John Gielgud

Ingrid Bergman speaks five languages and can’t act in any of them.

— John Gielgud

Your English style will no doubt put all the other gentlemen to bed. I speak figuratively, of course.

— John Gielgud

I am all in favour of spontaneity, providing it is carefully planned and ruthlessly controlled.

— John Gielgud

One's self-image is very important because if that's in good shape, then you can do anything, or practically anything.

— John Gielgud

When I first went to America in 1928, there were spittoons everywhere. I remember avoiding spit as it flew past me in Times Square.…

— John Gielgud

Being another character is more interesting than being yourself.

— John Gielgud