A person who is keen to shake your hand usually has something up his sleeve.

- Alec Guinness

The applause of all but very good men is no more than the precise measure of their possible hostility.

- Alec Guinness

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, a bag of tricks, …

- Alec Guinness

Styling is designing for obsolescence.

- Alec Guinness

An actor is totally vulnerable. His total personality is exposed to critical judgment - his intellect, his bearing, his diction, his whole appearance…

- Alec Guinness

I never knew how good it is to be unknown until now. The last time I was unknown I was too busy trying to become known to realize the advantages of o…

- Alec Guinness

I shrivel up every time someone mentions Star Wars to me.

- Alec Guinness

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 a group of innocents.

- Alec Guinness

Best performance of the year: Aston Villa v. Milan, September 1994

- Alec Guinness