The dramatic art would appear to be rather a feminine art; it contains in itself all the artifices which belong to the province ofwoman: the desire to please, facility to express emotions and hide defects, and the faculty of assimilation which is the real essence of woman.

Me pray? Never! I'm an atheist.

The actor is too prone to exaggerate his powers; he wants to play Hamlet when his appearance is more suitable to King Lear.

The theatre is the involuntary reflex of the ideas of the crowd.

To be a good actor... it is necessary to have a firmly tempered soul, to be surprised at nothing, to resume each minute the laborious task that has barely just been finished.

Those who know the joys and miseries of celebrities when they have passed the age of forty know how to defend themselves.

Permanent success cannot be achieved except by incessant intellectual labour, always inspired by the ideal.