Jim Dale Quotes

• 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

• You cannot learn anything from success, you only learn from failure.

  Jim Dale

• 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

• 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

• There is no spray can called ‘Instant Stardom,’ only talent can keep you at the top.

  Jim Dale

• 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

• 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

• I’m still a kid inside, and adventure is adventure wherever you find it.

  Jim Dale

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Good acting is consistency of performance.

  Jim Dale

• A career in the theatre demands so much commitment.

  Jim Dale

Jim Dale (15)

Birth:	15th August, 1935
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Actor, Comedian, Lyricist, Singer

About

Jim Dale was born in Rothwell, Northamptonshire, England. He  is an English actor, comedian, singer and songwriter. In the British film world he became one of the comedic icons in the Carry On series. As a songwriter, he is best remembered as the lyricist for the film theme "Georgy Girl", for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song and the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song in 1966. He also wrote lyrics for the title song of the films The Winter's Tale, Shalako, Twinky, and Joseph Andrews. At the age of 22 he became the first pop singer to work with George Martin, who produced all his hit records. In 1957, he was one of the presenters on BBC Television's Six-Five Special. For his Broadway performances, he has been nominated for five Tony Awards, winning one for Barnum in 1980. His role in several films include: The Iron Maiden, Nurse on Wheels, Carry On Cleo, The Big Job, Carry On Doctor, The National Health, and Joseph Andrews.

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