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The leading Shakespearean actress of her age and Henry Irving’s partner at the Lyceum Theatre; she wrote The Story of My Life (1908).
Imagination, industry, and intelligence—“the three I’s”—are all indispensable to the actress, but of these three the greatest is, without any doubt, imagination.
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.
I have been happiest in my work when I was working for some one else.