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I'm sure there isn't an after-life. If there were, Ivor Novello would have got a message to us.

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I feel so sorry for those poor men sitting up there all day. They must be so cold.

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Of Ingrid Bergman:
Dear Ingrid—speaks five languages and can't act in any of them.

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Most of my friends seem either to be dead, extremely deaf, or living in the wrong part of Kent.

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On how popular he is in America:
People like to hear me say 'shit' in my gorgeous voice.

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Your English style will no doubt put all the other gentlemen to bed. I speak figuratively, of course.

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Born: April 14, 1904
Died: May 21, 2000 (aged 96)
Bio: Sir Arthur John Gielgud was an English actor and theatre director whose career spanned eight decades. With Ralph Richardson and Laurence Olivier, he was one of the trinity of actors who dominated the British stage for much of the 20th century.
Known for:
  1. Arthur (1981)
  2. The Elephant Man (1980)
  3. Gandhi (1982)
  4. Chariots of Fire (1981)
  5. Prospero's Books (1991)

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