Famous Quotes | Beautiful women seldom want to...

Beautiful women seldom want to act. They are afraid of emotion and they do not try to extract anything from a character that they are portraying, because in expressing emotion they may encourage crow’s feet and laughing wrinkles. They avoid anything that will disturb their placidity of countenance, for placidity of countenance insures a smooth skin. - Laurette Taylor
Attribution: Laurette Taylor (1887–1946), U.S. actor. First published in “The Quality You Need Most,” Green Book Magazine (April 1914): 556-562. As quoted in Actors on Acting, rev. ed., part 13, by Toby Cole and Helen Krich (1970). Taylor, a fine stage actor, was not a beauty.

Categories: Actor, Actors And Acting, Beauty, Emotion

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