It's a little like casting out hundreds of fishing lines into the audience. You start getting little bites, then more, then you hook a few, then more…

- Jim Dale

We talk about theatre museums filled with old costumes and things. What we also need is a theatre museum of the old routines on videotape. We are onl…

- Jim Dale

I'd rather get a good clean laugh with good material, than an easy laugh by swearing or shocking. That's not clever or comedic, anybody can get a lau…

- Jim Dale

A career in the theatre demands so much commitment.

- Jim Dale

I'd get more applause than some because I was just seventeen. If they didn't clap at the end of my act I would limp off stage and boy would they feel…

- Jim Dale

The joy about the recording is that you are your own boss. You don't have a director telling you how to do it.

- Jim Dale

Good acting is consistency of performance.

- Jim Dale

I remember certain people in the audience laughing and I wanted to ask: 'What are you laughing at? This isn't funny.' Now I realize that laughter can…

- Jim Dale

You cannot learn anything from success, you only learn from failure.

- Jim Dale