Maude Adams

If I have smashed the traditions, it was because I knew no traditions.

Life is so fresh, life is every day so new if we are fighting, only for the best. Sometimes I think the only real satisfaction in life is failure, failure in your endeavor to do your best.

You may shelve your Shakespearian plans for the present. I am going to play Peter Pan.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

It's good to like yourself, and that only comes from hard work, from doing. But vanity is dangerous; it can trip you badly.

I've always been very determined, ever since I was a little girl, to make my way.