Edith Evans quotes
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“When a woman behaves like a man why doesn't she behave like a nice man?”
-- Edith EvansSource : The Observer, September 30, 1956.
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“If you're an actor, a real actor, you've got to be on the stage. But you mustn't go on the stage unless it's absolutely the only thing you can do.”
-- Edith EvansSource : "Dame Edith Evans, Ned's girl". Book by Bryan Forbes, Chapter 12, 1977.
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“I know that if I'd had to go and take an exam for acting, I wouldn't have got anywhere. You don't take exams for acting, you take your courage.”
-- Edith EvansSource : Speech to the annual actors' Equity meeting, 1951.
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“Actresses are such very dull people off the stage. We are only delightful and brilliant when we are doing what we are told to do. Off stage we are awful chumps.”
-- Edith EvansSource : "Dame Edith Evans, Ned's girl". Book by Bryan Forbes, Chapter 12, 1977.
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“What I want to give in the theatre is beauty, that's what I want to give.”
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“A successful artist of any kind has to work so hard that she is justified in refusing to lay down her sceptre until she is placed on the bier.”
-- Edith EvansSource : "Dame Edith Evans, Ned's girl". Book by Bryan Forbes, Chapter 13, 1977.
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“I can't imagine going on when there are no more expectations.”
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“His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might Be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was in the right.”
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Source : Abraham Coles (1866). “The Microcosm: A Poem, Read Before the Medical Society of New Jersey at Its Centenary Anniversary: with the Address Delivered as President, Jan. 24, 1866”, p.79
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“Feminine intuition, a quality perhaps even rarer in women than in men.”
Source : Ada Leverson (1962). “The little Ottleys: Love's shadow. Tenterhooks. Love at second sight”
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Source : A. B. Simpson (1987). “Missionary Messages: For a Church that Needs to Hear”, p.23, Moody Publishers
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“Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.”
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