Quote#Beauty
Beautiful women seldom want to act. They are afraid of emotion and…
Quote byLaurette Taylor · 1883–1946
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Quality You Need Most, from Green Book Magazine (April 1914).
English (original)
Beautiful women seldom want to act. They are afraid of emotion and they do not try to extract anything from a character that they are portraying, because in expressing emotion they may encourage crow's feet and laughing wrinkles. They avoid anything that will disturb their placidity of countenance, for placidity of countenance insures a smooth skin.
— Laurette Taylor
You may also like
Acting is the physical representation of a mental picture and the projection of an emotional concept.
Instinct is the direct connection with truth.
Personality is more important than beauty, but imagination is more important than both of them.
Her neck is bared—the blow is struck—the soul has pass'd away; The bright—the beautiful—is now a bleeding piece of clay!— A solemn text! Go, think of it, in silence and alone, Then weigh against a grain of sand the glories of a throne!
There is poetry and there is beauty in real sympathy; but there is more—there is action. […] The noblest and most powerful form of sympathy is not merely the responsive tear, the echoed sigh, the answering look—it is the embodiment of the …
Good and beautiful things may easily be spoiled by suggestions of rights and duties
