Security is mortal's chiefest enemy.
Conceit is an insuperable obstacle to all progress.
No amount of skill on the part of the actress can make up for the loss of youth.
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.
Eulogy is nice, but one does not learn anything from it.
Imagination! Imagination! I put it first years ago, when I was asked what qualities I thought necessary for success on the stage.