Alec Guinness
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"Sir Alec Guinness", was a well-known and largely respected English actor. After an early career on the stage he was featured in several of the Ealing Comedies, including The Ladykillers and Kind Hearts and Coronets in which he played eight different characters. He is also known for his six collaborations with David Lean: Herbert Pocket in Great Expectations (1946 film)/Great Expectations (1946), Fagin in Oliver Twist (1948 film)/Oliver Twist (1948), Col. Nicholson in The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor), Faisal I of Iraq/Prince Faisal in Lawrence of Arabia (film)/Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Yevgraf in Doctor Zhivago (film)/Doctor Zhivago (1965), and Professor Godbole in A Passage to India (film)/A Passage to India (1984). He is also known for his portrayal of Obi-Wan Kenobi in George Lucas’s original Star Wars#Original trilogy/Star Wars trilogy, receiving a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

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An actor is totally vulnerable. His total personality is exposed to critical judgment - his intellect, his bearing, his diction, his whole appearance. In short, his ego.

Luke : How did my father die? Obi-Wan : A young Jedi named Darth Vader, who was a pupil of mine until he turned to evil, helped the Empire hunt down and destroy the Jedi knights. He betrayed and murdered your father.

Essentially, I'm a small-part actor who's been lucky enough to play leading roles for most of his life.

The Force is what gives a Jedi his power. It's an energy field created by all living things. It surrounds us and penetrates us. It binds the galaxy together.

An actor is at his best a kind of unfrocked priest who, for an hour or two, can call on heaven and hell to mesmerize a group of innocents.

In my experience, there's no such thing as luck.

The Force will be with you, always.

Mos Eisley spaceport. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious.