"I suppose it was when I was in the Army that I came across Popeye characters and stored away in my mind their mannerisms, although when I came to play Popeye I didn't fashion the role on anyone in particular."
Bernard Bresslaw, talking about his preparation for portraying the dim-witted Popeye in The Army Game.
My first stage job was a man of seventy, with a walrus moustache. This was great till the night the moustache fell into the leading lady's soup. Unfortunately she spooned it up and chewed it. After that I was in four West End plays, playing serious parts in three of them, including the good-hearted but bullying seaman in The Good Sailor. Different roles called for different accents. On television I was a Belgian in a story about the life of Conrad, later a Spanish detective sergeant in a 17-century Restoration comedy."''
Bernard Bresslaw, on his early acting career
"At RADA, I had to learn ballet dancing. ...Imagine me pirouetting!!"
Bernard Bresslaw, on acting school
