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I am heartily rejoiced that my term is so near its close. I will soon cease to be a servant and will become a sovereign.
— James K. Polk
Kindness is as simple as being grateful for the love anyone has shown you, by not destroying them because it isn't on your terms.
— Shannon L. Alder
But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.
— Patrick Stewart
Acting is half shame, half glory. Shame at exhibiting yourself, glory when you can forget yourself.
— John Gielgud
Ibn Taymiyyah lived poorly. He was imprisoned and threatened. But I have never seen anyone as happy as him.
— Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
Our job is only to hold up the mirror - to tell and show the public what has happened.
— Walter Cronkite
I think the young actor who really wants to act will find a way ... to keep at it and seize every opportunity that comes along.
— John Gielgud
I am all in favour of spontaneity, providing it is carefully planned and ruthlessly controlled.
— John Gielgud
I'm sure there isn't an after-life. If there were, Ivor Novello would have got a message to us.
— John Gielgud
Most of my friends seem to be either dead, extremely deaf or living on the wrong side of Kent.
— John Gielgud
The task of the right eye is to peer into the telescope, while the left eye peers into the microscope.— Leonora Carrington
Your English style will no doubt put all the other gentlemen to bed. I speak figuratively, of course.
— John Gielgud
One's self-image is very important because if that's in good shape, then you can do anything, or practically anything.
— John Gielgud
Believe while others are doubting.
— William Arthur Ward
Before you can do something you must first be something.
— John Gielgud
Anything worth doing well is worth doing slowly ...
— Gypsy Rose Lee
John Gielgud told us this story about Mae West. She was asked, 'Do you ever smoke after you've had sex?' She answered, 'I never looked.
— Christopher Isherwood
It is very hard to cast a number of plays adequately from the same company of actors without several parts being miscast.
— John Gielgud
The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
— H.L. Mencken
