Our charity should be as wide and deep as the sea. Russia today is the victim of her own narrowness and blindness, her poverty of brotherly and sisterly love, her dearth of humanity. Look inward and study the universal woman or the universal man. We hear sometimes that temperament is the one essential of a player. He was unable to prove it because it isn't true.
Temperament is indispensable, yes, but temperament is by no means all.
There must be intelligence to direct it. The man who has temperament may play one part with tremendous effectiveness, but imagine that he has to play another part diametrically opposed to it, which will require information of locale or of time. Temperament without brain is like a runaway horse with no driver on the box. There should be understanding and sympathy and wisdom and cultivation in an actor s equipment. Suffering precedes acting.