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

- 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

Being another character is more interesting than being yourself.

- 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

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

- 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

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

- John Gielgud