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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.
Essentially, I'm a small-part actor who's been lucky enough to play leading roles for most of his life.
I don't know what else... (more Alec Guinness quotes)
At fourteen Alec was told, quite casually, that his real name was Guinness and that de Cuffe and Stiven were obliterated.
Alec brought a grace to the silver screen like few actors before or since. With his aristocratic gait and air of savoir fare, Sir Alec created a worldly array of memorable characters on the screen from British officers, to Arabian sheiks to Russian agents to otherworldy Jedi Knights to the most horrible butcher mankind has known. Although he left us, his legacy lives on in h... (more Alec Guinness trivia)
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