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

"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

"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

"The best translations cannot convey to us the strength and exquisite delicacy of thought in its native garb, and he to whom such books are shut flounders about in outer darkness."
-Edwin Booth