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Jim Dale Biography

Jim Dale, MBE (born 15 August 1935) is an English actor, narrator, singer, director, and composer. In the United Kingdom, he is best known as a pop star of the 1960s who became a leading actor at the National Theatre. In the British film world he became one of the comedic icons in the Carry On series. In the United States, he is most recognised as a leading actor on Broadway, where he had roles in Scapino, Barnum, Candide and Me and My Girl, as well as for narrating all seven of the Harry Potter audiobooks (for which he received two Grammy Awards out of six nominations) and the ABC series Pushing Daisies (2007–2009); he also starred in the Disney film Pete's Dragon (1977). He was nominated for a BAFTA Award for portraying a young Spike Milligan in Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall (1973).

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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.

Costumes, Museum, Museums, Technique, Theatre, Things

A career in the theatre demands so much commitment.

Career, Careers, Commitment, Theatre

I'm still a kid inside, and adventure is adventure wherever you find it.

Travel, Adventure, Kids, Kid, Wherever

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.

Audience, Laughing, Laughter, People

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.

Boys, Cripple, Kids, Limp, Saws, Seventeen

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

Boss, Directors, Joy, Recording, Telling

There is no spray can called 'Instant Stardom,' only talent can keep you at the top.

Instant, Keep, Stardom, Talent

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.

Away, Company, Country, Material, Travel, Years

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.

Audience, Entertaining, Nine, Singing, Song, Songs

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.

Fun, Make, People, Personal, School

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.

Clever, Comedic, Good, Laughing, Shocking, Way

You cannot learn anything from success, you only learn from failure.

Congratulations, Failure, Learn, Success

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.

Audience, Feelings, Fishing, Hook, Laughing, Loveliest

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.

Love You, Play, Villain, Live, Stage

Good acting is consistency of performance.

Acting, Consistency, Good, Performance, Performances

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.

Kids, Phone, Phones, Take, Write, Writing