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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
Tags: easy, way, laugh, good

Other Quotes by "Jim Dale"

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
Tags: phone-call, feel, words, time
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
Tags: start, fishing, feeling, you
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
Tags: travel, wife, good, work
Good acting is consistency of performance.
— Jim Dale
Tags: acting, performance, consistency, good
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
Tags: talk, things, only, theatre
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