Slow Down? Rest? With All Eternity Before

For The Theatre One Needs Long Arms... An Artiste With Short Arms Can Never Make A Fine Gesture.

Although All New Ideas Are Born In France, They Are Not Readily Adopted There. It Seems That They Must First Commence To Prosper In A Foreign Country.

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.

The Actor Is Too Prone To Exaggerate His Powers; He Wants To Play Hamlet When His Appearance Is More Suitable To King Lear.

If I Have A Foreign Accent—which I Much Regret—it Is Cosmopolitan, But Not Teutonic. I Am A Daughter Of The Great Jewish Race, And My Somewhat Uncultivated Language Is The Outcome Of Our Enforced Wanderings.