Rex Harrison
Rex Harrison
Sir Reginald Carey "Rex" Harrisonwas an English actor of stage and screen...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth5 March 1908
bikes people
Around here, people don't look for bikes because they're just not used to them. Therefore, we don't get seen.
ideas feelings exhilaration
Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you, and just before you realize what's wrong with it.
emotional acting actors
Acting is bad acting if the actor himself gets emotional in the act of making the audience cry. The object is to make the audience cry, but not cry yourself. The emotion has to be inside the actor, not outside. If you stand there weeping and wailing, all your emotions will go down your shirt and nothing will go out to your audience. Audience control is really about the actor
depressing pygmalion native-language
A woman who utters such disgusting and depressing noise has no right to be anywhere, no right to live. Remember that you are a human being with a soul and the divine gift of articulate speech, that your native language is the language of Shakespeare and Milton and The Bible. Don't sit there crooning like a bilious pigeon.
dirty challenges lows
Having been challenged by Colonel Pickering, Higgins: You know, it's almost irresistible. She's so deliciously low. So horribly dirty.
life men thinking
Higgins: I'm an ordinary man, who desires nothing more than just an ordinary chance, to live exactly as he likes, and do precisely what he wants. An average man am I, of no eccentric whim, Who likes to live his life, free of strife Doing whatever he thinks is best for him, Well, just an ordinary man
thieves tomorrow pleasure
Tomorrow is a thief of pleasure.
running art long
When you've always worked hard in the theater, you find that when you stop playing at the end of a run, the evenings seem very long indeed. You have to find something to keep yourself occupied because you're so used to gearing yourself up for that 8 O'clock curtain that to find any kind of really absorbing alternative is impossible . Nobody is as interesting to spend an evening with as a really good part.
aware becomes ceases mystery needs others remain whatever
Whatever it is that makes a person charming, it needs to remain a mystery ... once the charmer is aware of a mannerism or characteristic that others find charming, it ceases to be a mannerism and becomes an affectation.