top of page

"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."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Museums quotes

"There are wonderful museums with lots of photographs of 1920's musicals."

"If you're middle aged... where're you going to go to meet someone? You're not going to go to a bar, you're not going to go to a night club; and there are the museums."

"Some of our greatest historical and artistic treasures we place in museums; others, we take for walks."

"In museums and palaces we are alternate radicals and conservatives."

"An artist may visit a museum but only a pedant can live there."

"Even though the museums guarding their precious property fence everything off, in my own studio, I made them so you and I could walk in and around, and among these sculptures."

"I went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the statues that are in all the other museums."
Explore more quotes by 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."


"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."


"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."


"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."


"The joy about the recording is that you are your own boss. You don't have a director telling you how to do it."


"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."
bottom of page