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Top 15 Jim Dale Quotes (2025 Update)

Jim Dale Quote: “The joy about the recording is that you are your own boss. You don’t have a director telling you how to do it.”

1. “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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Jim Dale Quote: “I’m still a kid inside, and adventure is adventure wherever you find it.”

2. “I’m still a kid inside, and adventure is adventure wherever you find it.”

Jim Dale Quote: “You cannot learn anything from success, you only learn from failure.”

3. “You cannot learn anything from success, you only learn from failure.”

Jim Dale Quote: “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.”

4. “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 Quote: “Good acting is consistency of performance.”

5. “Good acting is consistency of performance.”

Jim Dale Quote: “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.”

6. “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.”

Jim Dale Quote: “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.”

7. “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 Quote: “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.”

8. “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 Quote: “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.”

9. “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 Quote: “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.”

10. “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.”

Jim Dale Quote: “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.”

11. “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 Quote: “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.”

12. “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.”

Jim Dale Quote: “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.”

13. “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.”

Jim Dale Quote: “A career in the theatre demands so much commitment.”

14. “A career in the theatre demands so much commitment.”

Jim Dale Quote: “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.”

15. “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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Jim Dale Quote: “There is no spray can called ‘Instant Stardom,’ only talent can keep you at the top.”

16. “There is no spray can called ‘Instant Stardom,’ only talent can keep you at the top.”

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