Top 18 Quotes & Sayings by George Sanders

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American actor George Sanders.
Last updated on December 21, 2024.
George Sanders

George Henry Sanders was a British actor whose career spanned over 40 years. His heavy, upper-class English accent and smooth, bass voice often led him to be cast as sophisticated but villainous characters. He is remembered for his roles as Jack Favell in Rebecca (1940), Scott ffolliott in Foreign Correspondent, The Saran of Gaza in Samson and Delilah (1949), the most popular film of the year, Addison DeWitt in All About Eve, Sir Brian De Bois-Guilbert in Ivanhoe (1952), King Richard the Lionheart in King Richard and the Crusaders (1954), Mr. Freeze in a two-parter episode of Batman (1966), the voice of Shere Khan in Disney's The Jungle Book (1967), the suave crimefighter The Falcon during the 1940s, and Simon Templar, The Saint, in five films made in the 1930s and 1940s.

Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck.
Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
Acting is like roller skating. Once you know how to do it, it is neither stimulating nor exciting. — © George Sanders
Acting is like roller skating. Once you know how to do it, it is neither stimulating nor exciting.
People of Wealth and the so called upper class suffer the most from boredom.
I am a reformed Catholic. I'm a Buddhist in other words.
I do not spoil women. ... I don't send them flowers and gifts. . . . I'm saving those gestures until I am an unpleasant old man who must resort to bribery to win a woman's synthetic affections.
This is no time to act like a gentleman. I am a cad and shall react like one.
It's not that it's so good with money, but that it's so bad without it.
I am essential to the theater.
Dear world, I am leaving because I am bored.
I'm nobody's fool, least of all yours.
The actor is not quite a human being-but then, who is?
The cynical, caustic, acid-tongued New York drama critic Addison De Witt introduces his protege/date of the moment, a bimbo date and so-called actress named Miss Casswell (Marilyn Monroe) in another very famous line: "Miss Casswell is an actress, a graduate of the Copacabana School of Dramatic Art."
I am annoyed by individuals who are embarrassed by pauses in a conversation. To me, every conversational pause refreshes.
Every well-thought-out rebuttal to dogma, every scrap of intelligent logic, every absurdist reduction of some bullying stance is the antidote.
Live. Let nothing be lost upon you. Be afraid of nothing.
Hope that, in future, all is well, everyone eats free, no one must work, all just sit around feeling love for one another. — © George Sanders
Hope that, in future, all is well, everyone eats free, no one must work, all just sit around feeling love for one another.
"All stories should be completely planned out from beginning to end."
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