10 Quotes by Edwin Booth

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    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.

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    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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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    Nothing of fame or fortune can compensate for the spiritual suffering that one possessing such qualities has to endure.

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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.

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