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Desmond Llewelyn quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“What is so brilliant about the gadgets is their simplicity.”
-- Desmond Llewelyn

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“Actors never retire, they just get less and less work.”
-- Desmond Llewelyn

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“My father died in 1930, but if you told him or anybody almost in that time that you'd be able to sit back in England and watch a cricket game in Australia, they'd have you put in the loony bin.”
-- Desmond Llewelyn

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“The size of the lie is a definite factor in causing it to be believed, for the vast masses of the nation are in the depths of their hearts more easily deceived than they are consciously and intentionally bad. The primitive simplicity of their minds renders them a more easy prey to a big lie than a small one, for they themselves often tell little lies but would be ashamed to tell a big one.”
“Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.”
“Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.”
“Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child.”
“The fear of the never-ending onslaught of gizmos and gadgets is nothing new. The radio, the telephone, Facebook - each of these inventions changed the world. Each of them scared the heck out of an older generation. And each of them was invented by people who were in their 20s.”
“I liked to work in a shop down in the basement and invent things and build gadgets.”
“A new gadget that lasts only five minutes is worth more than an immortal work that bores everyone.”
“What the problem was was this colossal redundancy, the squandering of brilliant technique on cheap material, ...”

Source : Alan Hollinghurst (2014). “The Line of Beauty: Picador Classic”, p.73, Pan Macmillan
“The most brilliant actor that I have ever worked with. I've liked others very much more.”
“The more brilliant the lightning, the quicker it disappears.”

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