Imagination! Imagination! I put it first years ago, when I was asked what qualities I thought necessary for success on the stage.
"Dame Ellen Terry", Order of the British Empire/GBE, was an English stage actress who became the leading Shakespearean actress in Britain.
Born into a Terry family/family of actors, Terry began performing as a child, acting in Shakespeare plays in London and toured throughout the British provinces in her teens. At 16 she married the 46-year-old artist George Frederic Watts, but they separated within a year. She soon returned to the stage but began a relationship with the architect Edward William Godwin and left performing for six years. She resumed acting in 1874 and was immediately acclaimed for her portrayal of roles in Shakespeare and other classics.
In 1878 she joined Henry Irving's company as his leading lady, and for more than the next two decades she was considered the leading Shakespearean and comic actress in Britain. Two of her most famous roles were Portia in The Merchant of Venice and Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing. She and Irving also toured with great success in America and Britain.
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Conceit is an insuperable obstacle to all progress.
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.
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.
Only a great actor finds the difficulties of the actor's art infinite.
Vary the pace... is one of the foundations of all good acting.
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