Ellen Terry
Ellen Terry
Dame Alice Ellen Terry, GBE, known professionally as Ellen Terry, was an English stage actress who became the leading Shakespearean actress in Britain...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionActress
Date of Birth27 February 1847
confidence enemy mortals
Security is mortal's chiefest enemy.
men theater dead-man
Coroners' inquests by learned societies can't make Shakespeare a dead man.
laughing comedian levels
The tragedian will always be a limited tragedian if he has not learned how to laugh. The comedian who cannot weep will never touch the highest levels of mirth.
usefulness
Not until we have learned to be useful can we afford to do what we like.
art exercise simple
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.
art acting actors
Only a great actor finds the difficulties of the actor's art infinite.