Edith Evans

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

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

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.

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

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.