[on Alec Guinness] He`s an actor, that fellow, a superb actor. But over and above that he does his homework. However idiosyncratically I saw Alec playing a part, I would be very, very cautious about criticizing it, because I know that every point about it...
[When asked by `Barry Norman` (II) why he had taken on the part of the Mahdi in `Khartoum` (1967), for which he was so obviously ill-suited] One doesn`t do everything for artistic reasons, dear boy.
[first address to the House of Lords, 1971] I believe in the theater; I believe in it as the first glamorizer of thought. It restores dramatic dynamics and their relations to life size.
[on Alec Guinness] He`s an actor, that fellow, a superb actor. But over and above that he does his homework. However idiosyncratically I saw Alec playing a part, I would be very, very cautious about criticizing it, because I know that every point about it...
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