{"id":6147,"date":"2007-03-23T16:30:26","date_gmt":"2007-03-23T20:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=6147"},"modified":"2022-10-12T15:43:37","modified_gmt":"2022-10-12T19:43:37","slug":"commonplace-book-acting-quotes-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=6147","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I am striving as best I can to make the audience understand them&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Eleanora Duse<\/i>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>I feel that I have never known<\/i> nor <i>shall I ever know how to act!<\/i>  Those poor women in my plays have entered so totally into my heart and head, that while I am striving as best I can to make the audience understand them, I almost feel like comforting them &#8230; but it is they who, little by little, end up by comforting me!  How &#8211; and why, and at what point &#8211; this affectionate, inexplicable, and undeniable &#8220;exchange&#8221; takes place between those women and me &#8230; it would take too long and be too difficult to relate precisely.  The fact remains that, while everybody else is suspicious of the women, I get along beautifully with them!  I pay no attention if they have lied, if they have betrayed, if they have sinned, if they were born crooked, as long as I feel that they have wept, that they have suffered as a result of lying or betraying or loving.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eleanora Duse: I feel that I have never known nor shall I ever know how to act! Those poor women in my plays have entered so totally into my heart and head, that while I am striving as best I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=6147\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,16],"tags":[271],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6147"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6147"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":180295,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6147\/revisions\/180295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}