Beerbohm Actor Quotes & Sayings

I consciously decided not to be a 'London' actor. Those gangster movies made a lot of East End actors think they were movie stars. And I was very aware that they were going to go out of fashion. — Eddie Marsan

Write to Please Yourself. When You write to Please Others You end up Pleasing No one. — Benjamin Franklin

The 'New Testament', now, I quite liked. Jesus had a lot of good things to say, and as for his father, he must have been highly thought of by the community to work with wood - a material that couldn't have been widely available in Palestine. — Terry Pratchett

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

Stared into my eyes as if searching for a coin she had dropped into a shallow pond. — Haruki Murakami

She realised with an intense, wonderful rush that love didn't make you weak. It made you vulnerable, but it also made you strong. — Kate Hewitt