Famous quotes containing the words successful, child and/or actor:
“The theater is a baffling business, and a shockingly wasteful one when you consider that people who have proven their worth, who have appeared in or been responsible for successful plays, who have given outstanding performances, can still, in the full tide of their energy, be forced, through lack of opportunity, to sit idle season after season, their enthusiasm, their morale, their very talent dwindling to slow gray death. Of finances we will not even speak; it is too sad a tale.”
—Ilka Chase (19051978)
“Mondays child is fair of face,
Tuesdays child is full of grace,
Wednesdays child is full of woe,
Thursdays child has far to go,
Fridays child is loving and giving,
Saturdays child works for its living,
And a child thats born on the Sabbath day
Is fair and wise and good and gay.”
—Mother Goose (fl. 17th18th century. Mondays child is fair of face (l. 18)
“I have often seen an actor laugh off the stage, but I dont remember ever having seen one weep.”
—Denis Diderot (17131784)