Conceit is an insuperable obstacle to all progress.
Eulogy is nice, but one does not learn anything from it.
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.
Imagination, industry, and intelligence - the three I's - are all
indispensable to the actress, but of these three the greatest is,
without doubt, imagination.
No amount of skill on the part of the actress can make up for the loss
of youth.