Sir Alec Guinness Quotes

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

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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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• I couldn’t understand why my productivity went down when I had deliberately made more time available to write. Then I realized it was because I wasn’t flying as much.

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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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• Acting is happy agony.

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• I have something here for you. Your father wanted you to have this when you were old enough, but your uncle wouldn’t allow it. He feared you might follow old Obi-Wan on some damn fool idealistic crusade like your father did. It’s your father’s lightsaber. This is the weapon of a Jedi Knight. Not as clumsy or as random as a blaster, but an elegant weapon for a more civilized age. For over a thousand generations, the Jedi Knights were the guardians of peace and justice in the Old Republic. Before the dark times, before the Empire.

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Sir Alec Guinness (8)

Birth:	2nd April, 1914
Death:	5th August, 2000
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Actor

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