Edith Evans

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”