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Famous John Gielgud Quotes
“I'm sure there isn't an after-life. If there were, Ivor Novello would have got a message to us.”
“Usually one must go to a bowling alley to meet a woman of your stature.”
“Ingrid Bergman speaks five languages and can’t act in any of them.”
“I am all in favour of spontaneity, providing it is carefully planned and ruthlessly controlled.”
“Being another character is more interesting than being yourself.”
“Most of my friends seem to be either dead, extremely deaf or living on the wrong side of Kent.”
Source: Sir John Gielgud: A Life in Letters