David Ivor Davies Quotes

• You cannot isolate yourself from the crowd – even if you want to.

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• When the cinematograph first made its appearance, we were told that the days of the ordinary theatre were numbered.

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• We were asked to believe that the variety and the novelty of even the crude films of the early days would provide a means of entertainment which would cut out the stage.

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• Things which do not require effort of some sort are seldom worth having.

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• There’s something Vichy about the French.

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• There is an atmosphere about the picture theatre that speaks of entertainment and relaxation. The charming surroundings, good music, and the fact that each visitor is determined to enjoy a few hours of holiday all exert an influence on the mind.

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• There are very few misanthropes, thank goodness!

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• The public must suffer untold pangs from the stiffness, the deliberate stifling of emotion, on the part of many British actors.

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• The inconvenience, the glaring lights, the long hours of waiting, and the repetition of every scene are all calculated to defeat anything more than a real mastery of love technique.

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• The crowd may be influenced easily, largely because it is a crowd.

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• The cinema is an institution nowadays, with its roots sunk deep in the hearts of the millions of people who find enjoyment and entertainment in going to the pictures.

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• The beautiful heroine might be thinking, How long must I bury my face on this wretched man’s shoulder? Such is not the always the case, but quite often it is.

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• The average person is gregarious; there is something in the spirit of the crowd that adds to the enjoyment of entertainment.

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• Television, they say, will permit a person to be entertained at home, without the effort of going to a picture house, without the trouble of booking seats, without the presence of other people.

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• Love-making is an art which must be studied.

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• It has been argued that British girls are incapable of deep feeling or brilliant acting owing to their lack of temperament. This, I am positive, is not true.

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• I began my career with infantile dreams of becoming a composer.

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• Every blessed one of you feels better for that burst of laughter.

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• British girls are as temperamental as Americans.

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• Behind the footlights there is always the applause, which stimulates the actors. On the screen it is a different matter.

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David Ivor Davies (24)

Birth:	15th January, 1893
Death:	6th March, 1951
Nationality:	Welsh
Profession:	Actor, Composer, Screenwriter

About

David Ivor Davies was born in Cardiff, Wales. He was a Welsh composer, screenwriter and actor. He starred in two silent films directed by Alfred Hitchcock, The Lodger and Downhill, both in 1927. On stage, he played the title character in the first London production of Liliom. He continued to write for film, but he had his biggest late successes with stage musicals: Perchance to Dream, King's Rhapsody and Gay's the Word. He co-wrote, produced and starred in the successful 1924 play The Rat. The play was made into a film in 1925, which was so successful that two sequels followed in 1926 and 1928.

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