"If you're an actor, a real actor, you've got to be on the stage. But you mustn't go on the stage unless it's absolutely the only thing you can do."

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Source : "Dame Edith Evans, Ned's girl". Book by Bryan Forbes, Chapter 12, 1977.

Edith Evans

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“Many people find it easy to imagine unseen webs of malevolent conspiracy in the world, and they are not always wrong. But there is also an innocence that conspires to hold humanity together, and it is made of people who can never fully know the good that they have done.”

Source : Tracy Kidder (1989). “Among School Children”, p.320, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I don't know how to put on any tough guy pretensions.”
“You don't reward reaction; you reward results.”
“I play each point like my life depends on it.”
“In the time of your life, liveâ€”so that in that wondrous time you shall not add to the misery and sorrow of the world, but shall smile to the infinite delight and mystery of it."”

Source : The Time of Your Life (1939)
“To your care and recommendation am I indebted for having replaced a half-blind mathematician with a mathematician with both eyes, which will especially please the anatomical members of my Academy.”
“We never really are the adults we pretend to be. We wear the mask and perhaps the clothes and posture of grown-ups, but inside ourskin we are never as wise or as sure or as strong as we want to convince ourselves and others we are. We may fool all the rest of the people all of the time, but we never fool our parents. They can see behind the mask of adulthood. To her mommy and daddy, the empress never has on any clothes--and knows it.”
“Sometimes I spend all day in my dressing gown. But if I do dress, I make myself ravishing because then, I feel ravishing.”

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