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Quotes from Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving — Bram Stoker

1847–1912 Ireland

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The fame of an actor is won in minutes and seconds, not in years.

Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving (1907)

My first impression of the man as of steel was consolidated and enhanced.

Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving (1907)

I have never seen so iron a countenance.

Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving (1907)

I could not but be struck by the strangers.

Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving (1907)

He is steel! He would go through you like a sword!

Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving (1907)

Burton had a most vivid way of putting things — especially of the East. He had both a fine imaginative power and a memory richly stored not only from study but from personal experience.

Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving (1907)

Logically speaking, even the life of an actor has no preface. He begins, and that is all.

Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving (1907)

From every life there may be a lesson to some one; but in the teeming millions of humanity such lessons can but seldom have any general or exhaustive force. The mere din of strife is too incessant for any individual sound to carry far.

Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving (1907)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Bram Stoker (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.