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No amount of skill on the part of the actress can make up for the loss of youth.
Eulogy is nice, but one does not learn anything from it.
Usefulness! It is not a fascinating word, and the quality is not one of which the aspiring spirit can dream o' nights, yet on the stage it is the first thing to aim at.
Imagination! Imagination! I put it first years ago, when I was asked what qualities I thought necessary for success on the stage.
Before you can be eccentric, you must know where the circle is ...
If it is the mark of the artist to love art before everything, to renounce everything for its sake, to think all the sweet human things of life well lost if only he may attain something, do some good, great work - then I was never an artist.
Applause is an instinctive, unconscious act expressing the sympathy between actors and audience. Just as our art demands more instinct than intellect in its exercise, so we demand of those who watch us an apppreciation of the simple unconscious kind which finds an outlet in clapping rather than the cold intellectual approval which would self-consciously think applause derogatory. I have yet to meet the actor who was sincere in saying that he disliked applause.
Only a great actor finds the difficulties of the actor's art infinite.
Not until we have learned to be useful can we afford to do what we like.
