Top 32 Quotes About Alec Guinness

#1. I can't tell you how much we laughed on the set to have Alec Guinness in a scene with a big, furry dog that's flying a space ship.

Mark Hamill

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#2. Young men make wars, and the virtues of war are the virtues of young men: courage, and hope for the future. Then old men make the peace, and the vices of peace are the vices of old men: mistrust and caution.

Alec Guinness

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#3. He who conquers other has force; he who conquers himself has strength.

Lao-Tzu

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#4. I never knew how good it is to be unknown until now. The last time I was unknown I was too busy trying to become known to realize the advantages of obscurity.

Alec Guinness

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#5. There seems to be no end to the senseless wickedness done on this little planet in a minor solar system, and we puny mortals appear to be decreasing in importance so far as the universe is concerned.

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#6. Failure has a thousand explanations. Success doesn't need one.

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#7. Best performance of the year: Aston Villa v. Milan, September 1994

Alec Guinness

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#8. Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?

Alec Guinness

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#9. Wine and tobacco destroy the individuality. After a cigar or a glass of vodka you are no longer Peter Sorin, but Peter Sorin plus somebody else. Your ego breaks in two: you begin to think of yourself in the third person.

Anton Chekhov

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#10. I shrivel up every time someone mentions Star Wars to me.

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

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#12. The applause of all but very good men is no more than the precise measure of their possible hostility.

Alec Guinness

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#13. All creative people hate mathematics. It's the most uncreative subject you can study.

Alec Guinness

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#14. F they'd been working with Alec Guinness, for instance, they wouldn't have known they were born if they'd not towed the line!

Alan Bennett

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#15. My contribution to film has always been negligible.

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#16. The point of a knighthood for British actors is to enable them to play butlers.

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

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#18. 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.

Alec Guinness

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#19. I'm a comedic actor, not to mix words, but it's something I think about. A comedic actor. I like to think that Christopher Guest, Phil Hartman, Peter Sellers and Alec Guinness are comedic actors. And Dan Aykroyd, too. Those are my heroes.

Mike Myers

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#20. Newton screamed when he felt them begin to crawl over his scrotum and try to wiggle between his buttocks

Jonathan Maberry

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#21. 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

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#22. I could play through anything. But just thinking about I have kids, longevity, I probably would have made more of a conscious effort not to hit the floor, but at the end of the day in the playoffs, you can't play that way. You just have to play and give it your all.

Rajon Rondo

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#23. An actor is at his best a kind of unfrocked priest who, for an hour or two, can call on heaven and hell to mesmerize a group of innocents.

Alec Guinness

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#24. The actors I respect are the real character actors, who are the real chameleon actors that completely change from role to role. I love Peter Sellers, Alec Guinness and Gary Oldman. They tend to be British, I guess. People who really disappear and transform, I really like that.

Fran Kranz

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

Alec Guinness

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#26. A person who is keen to shake your hand usually has something up his sleeve.

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#27. I neither suffer myself, nor other fools, gladly.

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#28. I've always loved Peter Sellers and Alec Guinness movies.

Mark Hamill

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#29. Ewan McGregor stars as Jedi Obi-Wan Kenobi, again doing a fine Alec Guinness impersonation but otherwise seeming lost and alone in the galaxy as the one actor attempting to give a real performance in this mess.

Stephanie Zacharek

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#30. Styling is designing for obsolescence.

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#31. I do have a lot of female friends who are stand-ups and also women who are actresses and also happen to have an act.

Kate Flannery

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#32. Comedy. It was just huge in my house. Peter Sellers and Alec Guinness, Monty Python and all those James Bond movies were highly regarded.

Mike Myers

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