Jim Dale Quotes

I'm still a kid inside, and adventure is adventure wherever you find it.
Jim Dale

Find, Adventure, Kid

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

Good, Laugh, Rather

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

A career in the theatre demands so much commitment.
Jim Dale

Career, Theatre, Commitment

Good acting is consistency of performance.
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

Joy, Boss, Director

There is no spray can called 'Instant Stardom,' only talent can keep you at the top.
Jim Dale

Keep, Talent, Top

You cannot learn anything from success, you only learn from failure.
Jim Dale

Success, Failure, Cannot

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

Time, Important, Done

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

Work, Good, Travel

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

Funny, Insecurity, Laughter

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

Feeling, Start, Whole

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

Old, Talk, Theatre

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

Wanted, Comedy, Singing

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

Love, Yourself, Live

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Nationality: British

Born: August 15, 1935

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