Edwin Booth Quotes

• When you are older you will understand how precious little things, seemingly of no value in themselves, can be loved and prized above all price when they convey the love and thoughtfulness of a good heart.

  Edwin Booth

  Love, Heart, Littles

  Edwin Booth, Edwina Booth Grossman (1894). “Edwin Booth: Recollections by His Daughter, Edwina Booth Grossmann, and Letters to Her and to His Friends”, New York : Century Company

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• An actor is a sculptor who carves in snow.

  Edwin Booth

  Snow, Theatre, Actors

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• But Nature cast me for the part she found me best fitted for, and I have had to play it, and must play it till the curtain falls.

  Edwin Booth

  Fall, Play, Found

  Edwin Booth, Edwina Booth Grossman (1894). “Edwin Booth: Recollections by His Daughter, Edwina Booth Grossmann, and Letters to Her and to His Friends”, New York : Century Company

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• Homelessness is the actor's fate; physical incapacity to attain what is most required and desired by such a spirit as I am a slave to.

  Edwin Booth

  Fate, Actors, Spirit

  Edwin Booth, Edwina Booth Grossman (1894). “Edwin Booth: Recollections by His Daughter, Edwina Booth Grossmann, and Letters to Her and to His Friends”, New York : Century Company

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• A Christian is one who rejoices in the superiority of a rival.

  Edwin Booth

  Christian, Rivals, Rejoice

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• A frequent change of role, and of the lighter sort - especially such as one does not like forcing one's self to use the very utmost of his ability in the performance of - is the training requisite for a mastery of the actor's art.

  Edwin Booth

  Art, Self, Training

  Edwin Booth, Edwina Booth Grossman (1894). “Edwin Booth: Recollections by His Daughter, Edwina Booth Grossmann, and Letters to Her and to His Friends”, New York : Century Company

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