Quotes by Alec Guinness

Alec Guinness

English actor

Lived from: 1914 - 2000

Category: Movie Country: United Kingdom

Born: 2 april 1914 Died: 5 august 2000

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• A superb tenor voice, like a silver trumpet muffled in silk.

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• An actor is totally vulnerable. His total personality is exposed to critical judgment - his intellect, his bearing, his diction, his whole appearance. In short, his ego.

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• Essentially, I'm a small-part actor who's been lucky enough to play leading roles for most of his life.

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• I don't know what else I could do but pretend to be an actor.

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• Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?

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Subjects in these quotes:

• personality
• essentially
• small-part
• exposed
• bearing
• diction

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