Maude Adams

I had very little confidence in myself as an actress.

I had very little confidence in myself as an actress.

Sometimes it seems that we are successful only because we have not tried hard enough for our best. We do read more

Sometimes it seems that we are successful only because we have not tried hard enough for our best. We do the hard thing, and one day we succeed, and many things are made plain to us.

The delightful sense of importance that had been mine as a child actress was taken out of me. It seemed read more

The delightful sense of importance that had been mine as a child actress was taken out of me. It seemed as if anyone could do better than I did. In every part I was worse than in the one before, and even my mother admitted that it would be a mercy if gestures could be dispensed with entirely.

Don't be afraid of failure; be afraid of petty success.

Don't be afraid of failure; be afraid of petty success.

Don't let anyone persuade you that anything we do in life less than our own best, is a worthy thing. read more

Don't let anyone persuade you that anything we do in life less than our own best, is a worthy thing. You must never compromise with your life. We know when we are doing first-rate things. When we satisfy ourselves with second-rate things, it is the beginning of a long, long death. We die from that minute.