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Film Quotes by Alec Guinness

95 quotes
The Horse's Mouth
Year: 1958

Director:
Ronald Neame
The Horse's Mouth
Gulley Jimson: What are your feet like?
Charwoman: Why?
Gulley Jimson: If they're really old, trampled feet - as I suspect - I'd like to draw them.
Charwoman: Draw your own feet!
[she leaves]
Gulley Jimson: Old women's feet... thin, flat, long, clinging to the ground like reptiles.
-- Alec Guinness (as Gulley Jimson) in The Horse's Mouth (1958)
The Lavender Hill Mob
Year: 1951

Director:
Charles Crichton
The Lavender Hill Mob
Henry Holland: I was a potential millionaire, yet I had to be satisfied with eight pounds, fifteen shillings, less deductions.
-- Alec Guinness (as Henry Holland) in The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)
The Lavender Hill Mob
Year: 1951

Director:
Charles Crichton
The Lavender Hill Mob
Henry Holland: Instead of changing as usual at Charing Cross, I came straight on to Rio de Janeiro. "Gay, sprightly, land of mirth and social ease." Pendlebury.
British man: Plus six Eiffel Towers. How much did they fetch?
Henry Holland: Twenty-five thousand pounds. Enough to keep me for one year in the style to which I was, ah, unaccustomed.
-- Alec Guinness (as Henry Holland) in The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)
The Lavender Hill Mob
Year: 1951

Director:
Charles Crichton
The Lavender Hill Mob
Henry Holland: Mr. Richards, with gold at 240 shillings per fine ounce, that particle, estimating its value at, .025, would entail a loss at approximately six shillings.
-- Alec Guinness (as Henry Holland) in The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)
The Lavender Hill Mob
Year: 1951

Director:
Charles Crichton
The Lavender Hill Mob
Henry Holland: The world is ours!
-- Alec Guinness (as Henry Holland) in The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)
The Lavender Hill Mob
Year: 1951

Director:
Charles Crichton
The Lavender Hill Mob
Henry Holland: There's nothing to laugh at!
-- Alec Guinness (as Henry Holland) in The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)
Our Man in Havana
Year: 1959

Director:
Carol Reed
Our Man in Havana
Jim Wormold: Everything's legal in Havana.
-- Alec Guinness (as Jim Wormold) in Our Man in Havana (1959)
Our Man in Havana
Year: 1959

Director:
Carol Reed
Our Man in Havana
Jim Wormold: We should all be clowns, Milly.
-- Alec Guinness (as Jim Wormold) in Our Man in Havana (1959)
A Majority of One
Year: 1961

Director:
Mervyn LeRoy
A Majority of One
Koichi Asano: The hardest word in the English language is "rorripop"
[lollipop]
Koichi Asano: .
-- Alec Guinness (as Koichi Asano) in A Majority of One (1961)
Tunes of Glory
Year: 1960

Director:
Ronald Neame
Tunes of Glory
Maj. 'Dusty' Miller: [Getting dressed hurriedly for dance lessons] Hand me my kilt of burning gold. Where are my plimsolls of desire? It's cruelty, that's what it is, cruelty. Margot Fonteyn couldn't suffer more.
-- Alec Guinness (as Maj. Jock Sinclair, D.S.O., M.M.) in Tunes of Glory (1960)