Nance O'Neil Quotes

United States, Actress
October 8, 1874 – February, 7, 1965.

Gertrude Lamson, known professionally as Nance O'Neil or Nancy O'Neil, was an American actress of stage and silent cinema of the early 20th century, dubbed the American Bernhardt.

Tradition has made women cowardly.

Nance O'Neil
- Women
- Made
- Tradition
... actresses require protection in their art from blind abuse, from savage criticism. Their work is their religion, if they are seeking the best in their art, and to abuse that faith is to rob them, to dishonor them.

Nance O'Neil
- Work
- Art
- Faith

An actress must be a woman whose emotional perceptions are true, and to make them so, she must have a fine contempt for any art or thought that betrays them for something false.

Nance O'Neil
- Art
- She
- True