Quotes from Eva Le Gallienne

I'd rather be a success as a fish than a failure as a fish trying to be a bird.

Innovators are inevitably controversial.

the theater should be free to the people just as the Public Library is free, just as the museum is free. ... I want the theater to be made accessible to the people.

What does so-called success or failure matter if only you have succeeded in doing the thing you set out to do. The doing is all that really counts.

Innovators are inevitably controversial.

People who are born even-tempered, placid and untroubled-secure from violent passions or temptations to evil-those who have never needed to struggle all night with the angel to emerge lame but victorious at dawn, never become great saints.