Quotes by Jim Dale - Page 1

Good acting is consistency of performance.
Jim Dale / Actor
Acting
Consistency
Good Acting
Performances
Performance
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A career in the theatre demands so much commitment.
Jim Dale / Actor
Careers
Commitment
Theatre
Demands
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You cannot learn anything from success, you only learn from failure.
Jim Dale / Actor
Success
Failure
Congratulations
Anything
Cannot
Learn
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I'm still a kid inside, and adventure is adventure wherever you find it.
Jim Dale / Actor
Kids
Travel
Adventure
Inside
Find
Still
Wherever
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There is no spray can called 'Instant Stardom', only talent can keep you at the top.
Jim Dale / Actor
Instant
Spray
Stardom
Talent
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There is no spray can called 'Instant Stardom,' only talent can keep you at the top.
Jim Dale / Actor
Instant
Stardom
Talent
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The joy about the recording is that you are your own boss. You don't have a director telling you how to do it.
Jim Dale / Actor
Boss
Directors
Joy
Director
Telling
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I was always the clown in school. I had a personal put down sense of humor. I wasn't vindictive. I didn't make fun of people.
Jim Dale / Actor
Fun
People
School
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You've got to love the villain if you have to play him. You've got to find something that you can live with in yourself if you're going to play the villain in a play on stage.
Jim Dale / Actor
Love You
Play
Villain
To Love
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I'd rather get a good clean laugh with good material, than an easy laugh by swearing or shocking. That's not clever or comedic, anybody can get a laugh that way, it's too easy.
Jim Dale / Actor
Clean
Clever
Comedic
Laughing
Shocking
Swearing
Way
Good Material
Laugh
Material
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I only travel to good material, a good director and a good company. I won't work in another country for a year any longer, because I have a lovely wife and I adore her and I can't bear to be away from her.
Jim Dale / Actor
Travel
Adore
Country
Good Company
Lovely
Years
Work Good Wife
Bear
Director
Longer
Material
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I remember certain people in the audience laughing and I wanted to ask: 'What are you laughing at? This isn't funny.' Now I realize that laughter can come from insecurity. They don't know how they should be feeling.
Jim Dale / Actor
Laughing
Laughter
People
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We talk about theatre museums filled with old costumes and things. What we also need is a theatre museum of the old routines on videotape. We are only the custodians of those techniques, and they should be preserved.
Jim Dale / Actor
Costumes
Filled
Museums
Technique
Theatre
Custodian
Museum
Preserved
Routines
Techniques
Videotape
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I feel if some kid has sat down and felt I'm important enough to write two pages of words to and take up a lot of his valuable time, then he deserves a few words back, or even a phone call as I have done on a few occasions.
Jim Dale / Actor
Kids
Occasions
Pages
Phones
Sat
Valuable
Valuable Time
Writing
Time Enough Done
Deserves
Phone
Phone Call
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When I was nine, we'd take a bus to the seaside. Coming back, we'd take turns entertaining, singing songs and the like. I tried some stand-up comedy. I had a captive audience in that bus. Then I realized I wanted to do more than that.
Jim Dale / Actor
Bus
Entertaining
Nine
Singing
Song
Stand Up Comedy
Turns
Captive
Realized
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I'd get more applause than some because I was just seventeen. If they didn't clap at the end of my act I would limp off stage and boy would they feel guilty. They would all burst into tremendous applause as they saw this poor cripple kid walking off.
Jim Dale / Actor
Kids
Applause
Boys
Guilty
Saws
Seventeen
Walking
Burst
Clap
Tremendous
Cripple
Limp
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It's a little like casting out hundreds of fishing lines into the audience. You start getting little bites, then more, then you hook a few, then more. Then you can start reeling them in and that's a loveliest feeling - the whole audience laughing with you.
Jim Dale / Actor
Bites
Casting
Feelings
Fishing
Hook
Laughing
Lines
Hundreds
Reeling
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