Alec Guinness Quotes

• "A superb tenor voice, like a silver trumpet muffled in silk."
• "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."
• "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."
• "She flung herself full-length on the stage, drummed with her feet and, taking the corner of a small Persian rug in her teeth, worried it while I sat rigid and appalled on the sofa, pressed back against the chintz cushions."
• "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?"
• "I don't know what else I could do but pretend to be an actor."
• "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."
• "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."