Before you can be eccentric, you must know where the circle is.

Security is mortal's chiefest enemy.

Not until we have learned to be useful can we afford to do what we like.

Wonderful women! Have you ever thought how much we all, and women especially, owe to Shakespeare for his vindication of women in these fearless, high-spirited, resolute and intelligent heroines?

Vary the pace. ... it is one of the foundations of all good acting.

Eulogy is nice, but one does not learn anything from it.

Applause is an instinctive, unconscious act expressing the sympathy between actors and audience. Just as our art demands more instinct than intellect in its exercise, so we demand of those who watch us an apppreciation of the simple unconscious kind which finds an outlet in clapping rather than the cold intellectual approval which would self-consciously think applause derogatory. I have yet to meet the actor who was sincere in saying that he disliked applause.