Quotes by Ellen Terry

Ellen Terry

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.

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

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Conceit is an insuperable obstacle to all progress.

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Obstacles

Progress

Conceit is an insuperable obstacle to all progress. On the other hand, it is of little use to take criticism in a slavish spirit and to act on it without understanding it.

Criticism

Hands

Understanding

Coroners’ inquests by learned societies can’t make Shakespeare a dead man.

Dead Man

Men

Theater

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

Doe

Eulogy

Nice

If it is the mark of the artist to love art before everything, to renounce everything for its sake, to think all the sweet human things of life well lost if only he may attain something, do some good, great work, then I was never an artist.

Art

Lost Love

Sweet

Imagination! Imagination! I put it first years ago, when I was asked what qualities I thought necessary for success on the stage.

Imagination

Quality

Years

Imagination! Imagination! I put it first years ago, when I was asked what qualities I thought necessary for success upon the stage. And I am still of the same opinion. Imagination, industry [hard work], and intelligence-the three I’s-are all indispensable to the actor, but of these three the greatest is, without any doubt, imagination.

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Imagination

Years

No amount of skill on the part of the actress can make up for the loss of youth.

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Quotes by Ellen Terry

Ellen Terry

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

Conceit is an insuperable obstacle to all progress.

Conceit is an insuperable obstacle to all progress. On the other hand, it is of little use to take criticism in a slavish spirit and to act on it without understanding it.

Coroners’ inquests by learned societies can’t make Shakespeare a dead man.

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

If it is the mark of the artist to love art before everything, to renounce everything for its sake, to think all the sweet human things of life well lost if only he may attain something, do some good, great work, then I was never an artist.

Imagination! Imagination! I put it first years ago, when I was asked what qualities I thought necessary for success on the stage.

No amount of skill on the part of the actress can make up for the loss of youth.

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