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Edith Evans Quotes

When a woman behaves like a man why doesn't she behave like a nice man?

When a woman behaves like a man why doesn't she behave like a nice man?

Edith Evans
Nice, Women, Memorable
The Observer, September 30, 1956.

If you're an actor, a real actor, you've got to be on the stage. But you mustn't go on the stage unless it's absolutely the only thing you can do.

Edith Evans
Real, Actors, Goes On
"Dame Edith Evans, Ned's girl". Book by Bryan Forbes, Chapter 12, 1977.

Actresses are such very dull people off the stage. We are only delightful and brilliant when we are doing what we are told to do. Off stage we are awful chumps.

Edith Evans
People, Awful, Actresses
"Dame Edith Evans, Ned's girl". Book by Bryan Forbes, Chapter 12, 1977.

What I want to give in the theatre is beauty, that's what I want to give.

Edith Evans
Giving, Theatre, Want

I know that if I'd had to go and take an exam for acting, I wouldn't have got anywhere. You don't take exams for acting, you take your courage.

Edith Evans
Acting, Exam, Knows
Speech to the annual actors' Equity meeting, 1951.

Death is my neighbor now.

Edith Evans
Death, Neighbor

A successful artist of any kind has to work so hard that she is justified in refusing to lay down her sceptre until she is placed on the bier.

Edith Evans
Successful, Artist, Kind
"Dame Edith Evans, Ned's girl". Book by Bryan Forbes, Chapter 13, 1977.

I can't imagine going on when there are no more expectations.

Edith Evans
Expectations, Imagine, I Can

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