Acting is half shame, half glory. Shame at exhibiting yourself, glory when you can forget yourself.
Ingrid Bergman speaks five languages and can’t act in any of them. - 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
Your English style will no doubt put all the other gentlemen to bed. I speak figuratively, of course.
It is very hard to cast a number of plays adequately from the same company of actors without several parts being miscast. - John Gielgud
It is very hard to cast a number of plays adequately from the same company of actors without several parts being miscast.
Being another character is more interesting than being yourself. - John Gielgud
Being another character is more interesting than being yourself.
I never accept lengthy film roles nowadays, because I am always so afraid I will die in the middle of shooting and cause such awful problems. - John Gielgud
I never accept lengthy film roles nowadays, because I am always so afraid I will die in the middle of shooting and cause such awful problems.
One's self-image is very important because if that's in good shape, then you can do anything, or practically anything. - John Gielgud
One's self-image is very important because if that's in good shape, then you can do anything, or practically anything.
Most of my friends seem to be either dead, extremely deaf or living on the wrong side of Kent. - John Gielgud
Most of my friends seem to be either dead, extremely deaf or living on the wrong side of Kent.
I'm sure there isn't an after-life. If there were, Ivor Novello would have got a message to us. - John Gielgud
I'm sure there isn't an after-life. If there were, Ivor Novello would have got a message to us.
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 down every day to do a job of wo… - 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 go down every day to do a job of wo…
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