Ellen Terry Quotes

• Vary the pace… is one of the foundations of all good acting.

  Ellen Terry

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  Tags in Acting, Foundations

• Usefulness! It is not a fascinating word, and the quality is not one of which the aspiring spirit can dream o’ nights, yet on the stage it is the first thing to aim at.

  Ellen Terry

  Topics in Dream

  Tags in Aspiring, Spirit

• There is all the difference in the world between departure from recognised rules by one who has learned to obey them, and neglect of them through want of training or want of skill or want of understanding. Before you can be eccentric you must know where the circle is.

  Ellen Terry

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Departure, Training, Understanding

• Only a great actor finds the difficulties of the actor’s art infinite.

  Ellen Terry

  Topics in Art

  Tags in Actor, Infinite

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

  Ellen Terry

  Topics in Youth

  Tags in Actress

• 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.

  Ellen Terry

  Topics in Ambition

  Tags in Human, Things, Artist

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

  Ellen Terry

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Eulogy

• Conceit is an insuperable obstacle to all progress.

  Ellen Terry

  Topics in Progress

  Tags in Conceit, Obstacle

Ellen Terry (8)

Birth:	27th February, 1847
Death:	21st July, 1928
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Actress

About

Dame Ellen Terry was born in Coventry, England. She was an English stage actress who became the leading Shakespearean actress in Britain. She resumed acting in 1874 and was immediately acclaimed for her portrayal of roles in Shakespeare and other classics. Two of her most famous roles were Portia in The Merchant of Venice and Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing. At 16 she married the 46-year-old artist George Frederic Watts, but they separated within a year. She soon returned to the stage but began a relationship with the architect Edward William Godwin and retired from the stage for six years.

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