A good actor must never be in love with anyone but himself.

A long, exact, and serious comedy; In every scene some moral let it teach, And, if it can, at once both please and preach.

Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.

Acting is happy agony.

Acting is not being emotional, but being able to express emotion.

And Tragedy should blush as much to stoop To the low mimic follies of a farce, As a grave matron would to dance with girls.

As good as a play.

But as for all the rest, There's hardly one (I may say none) who stands the Artist's test. The Artist is a rare, rare breed. There were but two, forsooth, In all me time (the stage's prime!) and The Other One was Booth.

Everybody has his own theatre, in which he is manager, actor, prompter, playwright, sceneshifter, boxkeepeer, doorkeeper, all in one, and audience into the bargain.

I sweat. If anything comes easy to me I mistrust it.