... actresses are such very dull people off the stage. We are only delightful and brilliant when we are doing what we are told to do. Off stage we are awful chumps.
—Dame Edith Evans (1888–1976)
Even the most incompetent English actor, coming on the stage briefly to announce the presence below of Lord and Lady Ditherege, gives forth a sound so soft and dulcet as almost to be a bar of music. But sometimes that is all there is. The words are lost in the graceful sweep of the notes.
—Robert Benchley (1889–1945)
The novel is more of a whisper, whereas the stage is a shout.
—Robert Holman (b. 1936)