Only a great actor finds the difficulties of the actor's art infinite.
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.
The picture of me is nearly finished, and I think it is magnificent. The green and blue of the dress is splendid, and the expression as Lady Macbeth holds the crown over her head is quite wonderful.
Before you can be eccentric, you must know where the circle is.
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.