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

- John Gielgud

It is very hard to cast a number of plays adequately from the same company of actors without several parts being miscast.

- 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, but never, ever, be bad in a good movie.

- 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.

- John Gielgud

Most of my friends seem to be either dead, extremely deaf or living on the wrong side of Kent.

- 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…

- 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

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

- John Gielgud

Being another character is more interesting than being yourself.

- John Gielgud