Jim Dale
Jim Dale
James "Jim" Dale, MBE, is an English actor, voice artist, and singer-songwriter. In the United Kingdom, he is best known for his many appearances in the Carry On series of films. In the United States, he is most recognized for narrating the Harry Potter audiobook seriesand the ABC series Pushing Daisies; he also had a prominent role in the Disney film Pete's Dragon...
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth15 August 1935
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My wife knew, but don't mention that because they'll probably put a spell on me and I'll disappear in a cloud of smoke. But you can't keep it from her -- I'm at home yelling out these voices. My wife must be an idiot if she didn't recognize this is book four. But she didn't read it.
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It helps if you have an ear for voices and accents,
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A period of severe wintry weather with blizzards, bitter winds and hard frosts is set to strike. The Arctic-like weather will be felt in the east and north of the country at first, spreading to all other parts during the course of the week.
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I was always the clown in school. I had a personal put down sense of humor. I wasn't vindictive. I didn't make fun of people.
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You cannot learn anything from success, you only learn from failure.
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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.
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I'm still a kid inside, and adventure is adventure wherever you find it.
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Good acting is consistency of performance.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The joy about the recording is that you are your own boss. You don't have a director telling you how to do it.
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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.
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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.