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Quote by Minnie Maddern Fiske

“I suppose that Paderewski can play superbly, if not quite at his best, while his thoughts wander to the other end of the world, orpossibly busy themselves with a computation of the receipts as he gazes out across the auditorium. I know a great actor, a master technician, can let his thoughts play truant from the scene.”

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Minnie Maddern Fiske

Minnie Maddern Fiske was an English-American actress who made a significant impact in the transition from stage to screen. Born in London in December 1865, she began her career on the stage and later moved to the United States to work in film. Fiske was one of the first actresses to appear in talking pictures and is recognized for her contributions to the early days of American cinema. more

“Many a play is like a painted backdrop, something to be looked at from the front. An Ibsen play is like a black forest, somethingyou can enter, something you can walk about in. There you can lose yourself: you can lose yourself. And once inside, you find such wonderful glades, such beautiful, sunlit places.”

Play Beautiful Actors Black Loses Walks Acting Wonderful Fronts Forests Losing Yourself Backdrop Ibsen

Author:Minnie Maddern Fiske

“You must make your own blunders, must cheerfully accept your own mistakes as part of the scheme of things.”

Mistake Accepting Schemes Blunders

Book:Mrs. Fiske: Her Views on Actors, Acting, and the Problems of Production

Source: Mrs. Fiske: Her Views on Actors, Acting, and the Problems of Production

“In spite of their obvious differences, folk art and popular art have much in common; they are easy to understand, they are romantic, patriotic, conventionally moral, and they are held in deep affection by those who are suspicious of the great arts. Popular artists can be serious, like Frederick Remington, or trivial, like Charles Dana Gibson; they can be men of genius like Chaplin or men of talent like Harold Lloyd; they can be as uni versal as Dickens or as parochial as E.P. Roe; one thing common to all of them is the power to communicate directly with everyone.”