Good acting is consistency of performance.

- 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 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

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

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

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

You've got to love the villain if you have to play him. You've got to find something that you can live with in yourself if you're going to play the v…

- Jim Dale

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

- Jim Dale