Julia Marlowe famous quotes

The inability to listen and to depict in the countenance what others have said has spoiled many a good actress.
-- Julia Marlowe

#Inability #Actresses #Spoiled

Art is beauty, and every exposition of art, whether it be music, painting, or the drama, should be subservient to that one great end. As long as nature is a means to the attainment of beauty, so-called realism is necessary and permissable [sic], but it must be realism enhanced by idealism and uplifted by the spirit of an inner life or purpose.
-- Julia Marlowe

#Music #Beauty #Art

Realism to be effective must be a matter of selection.genius chooses its materials with a view to their beauty and effectiveness; mere talent copies what it thinks is nature, only to find it has been deceived by the external grossness of things.
-- Julia Marlowe

#Reality #Thinking #Views

The requirements of the theatre are very great--a strong constitution, energy and unflagging purpose, charm of feature, these alone do not necessarily mean anything, and they must not be relied upon as assurances of an easy conquest of the public heart. It is not only a question of fitness for the work, but of long years of most diligent effort to master the technique of the theatre, and to develop whatever of the art instinct we may possess upon the simplest, broadest, and most human lines.
-- Julia Marlowe

#Art #Strong #Mean

... unless the actor is able to discourse most eloquently without opening his lips, he lacks the prime essential of a finished artist.
-- Julia Marlowe

#Artist #Acting #Essentials

I am pissed off at your insensitive inability to understand why I'm pissed off in the first place.

We cannot look at Syria, and the evil that has arisen from the ashes of indecision, and think this is not the lowest point in the world's inability to protect and defend the innocent.

Jesus will brush aside your inabilities.

Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others. Their fear is only their inability to face what is real, and I can't vent any anger against them. I only feel this appalling sadness. Somewhere, in their upbringing, they were shielded against the total facts of our existence. They were only taught to look one way when many ways exist.

It helps if you don't date other actors, but actresses are beautiful. How can you say no?

My ambition is to become one of those actresses that is like a chameleon that you don't recognize.

I knew that I wanted to be a film actress and I never watched TV. I was always too busy.

No, I always wanted to be an actress.

Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.

I'm so spoiled - I must have a Starbucks vanilla latte every day.