If I have a foreign accent—which I much regret—it is cosmopolitan, but not Teutonic. I am a daughter of the great Jewish race, and my somewhat uncultivated language is the outcome of our enforced wanderings.

For the theatre one needs long arms... an artiste with short arms can never make a fine gesture.

... actors of the first water are not more plentiful than playwrights of genius.

Each action of the actor on the stage should be the visible concomitant of his thoughts.

We ought to hate very rarely, as it is too fatiguing; remain indifferent to a great deal, forgive often and never forget.

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

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.