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…

- Eva Le Gallienne

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

- Eva Le Gallienne

People hate what they don't understand and try to destroy it.

- Eva Le Gallienne

The theater has fallen into the hands of real estate men and syndicates and those who have no love or interest in the stage or its life, but who have…

- Eva Le Gallienne

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.

- Eva Le Gallienne

Innovators are inevitably controversial.

- Eva Le Gallienne

People who are born even-tempered, placid and untroubled - secure from violent passions or temptations to evil - those who have never needed to strug…

- Eva Le Gallienne

People hate what they don't understand and try to destroy it. Only try to keep yourself clear and don't allow that destructive force to spoil somethi…

- Eva Le Gallienne