For the theatre one needs long arms... an artiste with short arms can never make a fine gesture |
He who is incapable of feeling strong passions, of being shaken by anger, of living in every sense of the word, will never be a good actor . . . |
I adore Chicago. It is the pulse of America. |
I do love cricket - it's so very English. |
I have, thanks to my travels, added to my stock all the superstitions of other countries. I know them all now, and in any critical moment of my life, they all rise up in armed legions for or against me. |
I have, thanks to my travels, added to my stock all the superstitions of other countries. I know them all now, and in any critical moment of my life, they all rise up in armed legions for or against me. |
It is in spending oneself that one becomes rich |
Legend remains victorious in spite of history. |
Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich. |
Once the curtain is raised, the actor is ceases to belong to himself. He belongs to his character, to his author, to his public. He must do the impossible to identify himself with the first, not to betray the second, and not to disappoint the third. |
Oscar Wilde: 'Do you mind if I smoke?' Sarah Bernhardt: 'I don't care if you burn' |
Oscar Wilde: 'Do you mind if I smoke?' Sarah Bernhardt: 'I don't care if you burn' |
The monster of advertisement... is a sort of octopus with innumerable tentacles. It throws out to right and left, in front and behind, its clammy arms, and gathers in, through its thousand little suckers, all the gossip and slander and praise afloat, to spit out again at the public. |
The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions. |
To be a good actor . . . it is necessary to have a firmly tempered soul, to be surprised at nothing, to resume each minute the laborious task that has barely just been finished. |