Sarah Siddons Quotes

#1. Whatever part I'm playing, I always carry with me something that's been used by an illustrious predecessor. I'm a great believer in a touching of hands. I have daggers belonging to Henry Irving and Sarah Siddons.

Donald Sinden

#2. I pant for retirement and leisure, but am doomed to inexpressible and almost unsupportable hurry.

Sarah Siddons

#3. I want to learn about a different religion. I grew up Catholic, but my grandfather was Jewish. Knowledge about other religions can help you understand your own better. I think it's kind of hypocritical to believe one thing and don't know about any others.

Mandy Moore

#4. Sorry am I to say, I have often observed that I have performed worst when I most ardently wished to do better than ever.

Sarah Siddons

#5. The awful consciousness that one is the sole object of attention to that immense space, lined as it were with human intellect from top to bottom, and on all side round, may be perhaps be imagined but can not be described.

Sarah Siddons

#6. By my third year of Law and Order, I was climbing the walls. But you don't leave a hit show, especially when you have a five-year contract.

Chris Noth

#7. Because everything is interdependent, there are no simple, single causes and effects. Every action creates not just an equal and opposite reaction, but a web of reverberating consequences.

Starhawk

#8. Is my understanding only blindness to my own lack of understanding? It often seems so to me.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#9. Alas, how wretched is the being who depends on the stability of public favour!

Sarah Siddons

#10. Pity that child who was born near Rouen,
His only crime, to arrive deformed.

E.A. Bucchianeri

#11. I know, by sad experience, with what difficulty a mind, weakened by long and uninterrupted suffering, admits hope, much less assurance.

Sarah Siddons

#12. I believe one half of the world is born for the convenience of the other half ...

Sarah Siddons

#13. Customary interruptions are not only gratifying and cheering, but they are also really necessary in order to gain breath and voice to carry one on through some violent exertions; though after all it must be confessed that silence is the most flattering applause an Actor can receive.

Sarah Siddons