Top 40 Gielgud Quotes
#1. There have been many gay knights in the past - like Sir Noel Coward or Sir John Gielgud.
Ian McKellen
#2. My mother was madly adventurous. My father was an actor - he worked with Gielgud - and my mother came from a very wealthy family. She definitely wasn't meant to marry an actor, but she eloped with him one lunch-time.
Francesca Annis
#3. John Gielgud told us this story about Mae West. She was asked, 'Do you ever smoke after you've had sex?' She answered, 'I never looked.
Christopher Isherwood
#4. I like to be busy. I once shared an agent with the late Sir John Gielgud, who, at 96, was apparently still ringing up, saying, 'Hello, Gielgud here, any work?' Good on him. We've got to keep working. If we retire, there'll be nobody to play the old wrinklies, and that would be a dreadful shame.
Charles Dance
#5. I started being interested in acting when I heard the voices of Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud and Sir Alec Guinness. I've had the great privilege of working with Sir Derek Jacobi and Sir Anthony Hopkins. These are people who inspire the work that I do.
Kenneth Branagh
#6. Being asked to play one of the butlers is like being picked to play for England. All you have to do is think of the great butlers from the past - Terry-Thomas in 'How To Murder Your Wife,' John Gielgud in 'Arthur' and Denholm Elliott in 'Trading Places.'
Mark Williams
#7. When I came into the acting profession, it was quite hierarchical. You didn't sit at the same table as the leading actor. Sir Laurence Olivier, Sir John Gielgud ... these were very, very intimidating and powerful people.
Helen Mirren
#8. Now the Gielgud Theater is a very famous old theater, because it was originally called the Globe, and the Globe is where my mother made her very first professional appearance in London, was at the Globe Theater.
Angela Lansbury
#9. As we at all times criticise the Premier for his management of home affairs, call Mr Butler a fool for his Budget, find fault with Beecham's conducting, or Gielgud's performance, can we not, sometimes, say that our cricketers are not quite so brilliant as usual?
Margaret Hughes
#10. 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.
Patrick Stewart
#12. Book reviewers are little old ladies of both sexes.
John O'Hara
#13. Usually one must go to a bowling alley to meet a woman of your stature.
John Gielgud
#14. Anyway, as I was saying, I don't know about you, Granddad, but I come from a long line of" - her gaze flicked through the open door into the room behind - "fishermen, who taught me that whilst I wasn't ever to think I was better than anyone else, I should always keep in mind that I was just as good.
Connie Brockway
#15. Obviously ,you want to demand the puck; you want to have it as much as you can because you feel like good things can happen when it's on your stick.
Patrick Kane
#16. It must not be supposed that the heavens or the luminaries are endowed with life(3). For they are inanimate and insensible(4). So that when the divine Scripture saith, Let the heavens rejoice and the earth be glad(5), it is the angels in heaven and the men on earth that are invited to rejoice.
John Damascene
#17. When you've gone through something traumatic, when you've faced death and loss as much as we have, it's only natural that it changes your entire view of life.
Claire Bidwell Smith
#18. The problem with righteous indignation is that even when you're right, you're still left feeling indignant.
Bill Crawford
#19. Before you can do something you must first be something.
John Gielgud
#20. I never accept lengthy film roles nowadays, because I am always so afraid I will die in the middle of shooting and cause such awful problems.
John Gielgud
#21. It is very hard to cast a number of plays adequately from the same company of actors without several parts being miscast.
John Gielgud
#22. I am all in favour of spontaneity, providing it is carefully planned and ruthlessly controlled.
John Gielgud
#23. I moved to New York in the 1970s and started writing when I was at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program.
Jenny Holzer
#24. Women have seen that they have locked themselves up with feminist writing.
Nathalie Sarraute
#25. One's self-image is very important because if that's in good shape, then you can do anything, or practically anything.
John Gielgud
#26. I'm sure there isn't an after-life. If there were, Ivor Novello would have got a message to us.
John Gielgud
#27. History is full of examples of regimes that were oppressing at home and aggressive abroad, and I can't think of too many liberal democracies engaging in counterfeiting, drug running, missile proliferation, and just about any other illegal activity you can think of as North Korea does.
Ed Royce
#28. Acting is half shame, half glory. Shame at exhibiting yourself, glory when you can forget yourself.
John Gielgud
#29. You can be good in a good movie, you can be good in a bad movie, you can be bad in a bad movie, but never, ever, be bad in a good movie.
John Gielgud
#30. There's this thing love stories always forget to mention. That love isn't a constant thing. Sometimes it changes, other times it fades completely. Sometimes you have to fall in love twice to truly understand it.
R.K. Ryals
#31. N MY early boyhood I was enraptured by the great fairytale illustrators of the period: Arthur Rackham, Edmond Dulac, Kay Nielsen. As a schoolboy, I was to discover Aubrey Beardsley, and I was extremely fond of an edition of A Midsummer Night's Dream with most imaginative drawings by Heath Robinson,
John Gielgud
#32. Being another character is more interesting than being yourself.
John Gielgud
#33. The qualities of creativity and genius are within you, awaiting your decision to match up with the power of intention.
Wayne Dyer
#34. The Bible is a book of Science. Secular Humanism is a religion of mythology.
Michael J. Findley
#35. Ingrid Bergman speaks five languages and can't act in any of them.
John Gielgud
#36. Your English style will no doubt put all the other gentlemen to bed. I speak figuratively, of course.
John Gielgud
#37. When I first went to America in 1928, there were spittoons everywhere. I remember avoiding spit as it flew past me in Times Square. Very unattractive.
John Gielgud
#38. I think the young actor who really wants to act will find a way ... to keep at it and seize every opportunity that comes along.
John Gielgud
#39. I'm sometimes embarrassed by how clinical I can become when I'm out reporting.
Nicholas Kristof
#40. Most of my friends seem to be either dead, extremely deaf or living on the wrong side of Kent.
John Gielgud
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