Alec Guinness Quotes
Much of the day I have busied myself making notes on the small parts in Shakespeare, often nameless, which are rewarding to the actor if only he'll not dismiss them as beneath his dignity. If I can work it up into a talk I might call it, 'Only a cough and a spit ' -the phrase so often used by actors to explain away a lack of opportunity.
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Well Sid Pollack was... He was I would say probably, probably the most influential on me.
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Los Angeles is a city known as much for it's sun as for its stars and it's dirty air.
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I have 179 children that I take care of full-time: close to 40 in Uganda and the rest in Sudan.
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I think that we are trying to put data communications, telecommunications and media communications together and be the No. 1 player there.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
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At some particular time, when I was 14 years old, I've done something that people didn't expect.
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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
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Breaking the world record in '92 was a very special personal moment, but I'd say my favorite moment as a decathlete was winning the Olympic gold medal. It was a lot of years of work, and when I won it, it was more a sense of relief than jubilation or exaltation.
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Every character I've ever played, I always try to take him right to the edge and not allow him to fall over, but directors have a tendency to pull me back a little bit.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.
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I am a contradiction myself. I'm always looking for something that scares me because when I'm not scared, I'm not stimulated.
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Superman's always chasing after someone who just mugged somebody, and I've never seen that happen in my life.
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You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.
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See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise.
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I've never been against women. That anti-feminist rap is bogus. I think men should be nice to women, buy them diamonds.
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I am so lazy and sometimes will go as late as 9 A.M. to shoot.
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The Pope talks so much shit. The Pope was castigating the media for making gays look normal. YEAH, you're a real GOOD judge of normal, with your gold dress and your matching gold hat, living it up in the Vatican with 500 men surrounded by the finest antiques in the world! Queen, please! You live like Versace did!
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An album is a thing you take time out and go work on.
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Most nights, I'm good for only four or five hours of sleep. That leaves the other 20. I have to fill them some way.
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The punishment of shaving a woman's head had biblical origins. In Europe, the practice dated back to the Dark Ages with the Visigoths.
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I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
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Much of the day I have busied myself making notes on the small parts in Shakespeare, often nameless, which are rewarding to the actor if only he'll not dismiss them as beneath his dignity. If I can work it up into a talk I might call it, 'Only a cough and a spit ' -the phrase so often used by actors to explain away a lack of opportunity.
