19th-century Actor Quotes

Nothing of course was ever done to Bill for the killing of Tutt.

The work I'm doing on the screen differs from that of anyone else. My comedy is of a peculiar nature...no writers have been developed along the lines of my type of comedy and this is why I sometimes have differences with writers, supervisors and directors alike.

There is no art which affords less opportunity to execute expression than photography. Everything is concentrated in a few seconds, when after perhaps an hours seeking, waiting, and hesitation, the photographer sees the realization of his inward vision, and in that moment he has one advantage over most arts - his medium is swift enough to record his momentary inspiration.

Sadakichi Hartmann

Oh Paddy dear, and did you hear
The news that's going round?
The shamrock is forbid by law
To grow on Irish ground.

Dion Boucicault

I have always held those political opinions which point to the universal brotherhood of man, no matter in what rank of life he may have taken his origin.

Alexander Mackenzie

An ugly knife lay buried in the heart of Mad Carew,
'Twas the 'Vengeance of the Little Yellow God'.

J. Milton Hayes

Americans are getting like a Ford car, they all have the same exact parts, the same upholstering and make exactly the same noises.

As far as I could discover, the notion that a play could succeed without any further help from the actor than a simple impersonation of his part never occurred to Tree.

Herbert Beerbohm Tree

We all tend to be greedy end-gainers, paying no attention to our means whereby.

F. Matthias Alexander

Silence is the Mother of Truth, for the silent man was ever to be trusted, while the man ever ready with speech was never taken seriously.

Luther Standing Bear

Money is de root of evil
No matter where you happen to go;
But nobody has any objections to de root; now ain't dat so?

It was my mustache that landed jobs for me. In those silent-film days it was the mark of a villain. When I realized they had me pegged as a foreign nobleman type I began to live the part, too. I bought a pair of white spats, an ascot tie and a walking stick.

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough

You will recognize, my boy, the first sign of old age: it is when you go out into the streets of London and realize for the first time how young the policemen look.

At the end of filming 'Bill of Divorcement':

Katharine Hepburn: Thank God, I don't have to act with you any more.
Barrymore: I didn't know you ever had, darling.