When I was bound apprentice, in famous Lincolnshire, Full well I served my master for more than seven year,... Till I took up poaching, as you shall quickly hear: Oh, 'tis my delight on a shining night, in the season of the year.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... the one lesson in the ultimate triumph of any great actress has been to enforce the fact that a method all technique or a meth...od all throes, is either one or the other inadequate, and often likely to work out in close proximity to the ludicrous.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The theater is a baffling business, and a shockingly wasteful one when you consider that people who have proven their worth, who h...ave appeared in or been responsible for successful plays, who have given outstanding performances, can still, in the full tide of their energy, be forced, through lack of opportunity, to sit idle season after season, their enthusiasm, their morale, their very talent dwindling to slow gray death. Of finances we will not even speak; it is too sad a tale.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... actresses require protection in their art from blind abuse, from savage criticism. Their work is their religion, if they are s...eeking the best in their art, and to abuse that faith is to rob them, to dishonor them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The society girl meets more dangers than the girl on the stage. There is more danger at a tango tea than in the theatre. The actor... is less dangerous than the dancing master.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But ...I'm past that age.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »