Best Quotes by Alec Guinness (Top 4)

  1. An actor is totally vulnerable. His total personality is exposed to critical judgment - his intellect, his bearing, his diction, his whole appearance. In short, his ego.
  2. An actor is at his best a kind of unfrocked priest who, for an hour or two, can call on heaven and hell to mesmerize a group of innocents.
  3. A superb tenor voice, like a silver trumpet muffled in silk.
  4. Essentially, I'm a small-part actor who's been lucky enough to play leading roles for most of his life.