The actors today really need the whip hand. They're so lazy. They haven't got the sense of pride in their profession that the less socially elevated musical comedy and music hall people or acrobats have. The theater has never been any good since the actors became gentlemen.

Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.

While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.

She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.

I love acting. It is so much more real than life.