Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that big black space where the audience is.
Mae WestToo many Broadway actors in motion pictures lost their grip on success--had a feeling that none of it had ever happened on that sun-drenched coast, that the coast itself did not exist, there was no California. It had dropped away like a hasty dream and nothing could ever have been like the things they thought they remembered.
Mae West