Edith Evans - biography

“I know that if I’d had to go and take an exam for acting, I wouldn’t have got anywhere.  You don’t take exams for acting, you take your courage.”

“What I want to give in the theatre is beauty, that’s what I want to give.”

“A successful artist of any kind has to work so hard that she is justified in refusing to lay down her sceptre until she is placed on the bier.”

“I can’t imagine going on when there are no more expectations.”

“When a woman behaves like a man why doesn’t she behave like a nice man?”

Edith Evans has appeared in the following films:
The Big Benefit (1933)
The Last Days of Dolwyn (1949)
The Queen of Spades (1949)
The Importance of Being Earnest (1952)
Look Back in Anger (1958)
The Nun’s Story (1959)
Tom Jones (1963)
The Chalk Garden (1964)
Young Cassidy (1965)
Fitzwilly (1967)
The Whisperers (1967)
Prudence and the Pill (1968)
Crooks and Coronets (1969)
The Madwoman of Chaillot (1969)
Scrooge (1970)
Craze (1974)
The Slipper and the Rose: The Story of Cinderella (1976)
Nasty Habits (1977)