Top 6 Quotes & Sayings by Sybil Thorndike

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an English actress Sybil Thorndike.

Last updated on December 22, 2024.

Dame Agnes Sybil Thorndike, Lady Casson was an English actress who toured internationally in Shakespearean productions, often appearing with her husband Lewis Casson. Bernard Shaw wrote Saint Joan specially for her, and she starred in it with great success. She was made Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1931, and Companion of Honour in 1970.

English - Actress | October 24, 1882 - June 9, 1976

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I want Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D played at my funeral. If it isn't I shall jolly well want to know why.

Sybil Thorndike

I think we all have the germ of every other person inside of us.

Sybil Thorndike

I was brought up in a clergyman's household so I am a first-class liar.

Sybil Thorndike

We don't want bores in the theatre. We don't want standardised acting, standard actors with standard-shaped legs. Acting needs everybody, cripples, dwarfs and people with noses so long. Give us something that is different.

Sybil Thorndike

[When asked if she had ever considered divorcing Sir Lewis Casson:] Divorce? Never. But murder often!

Sybil Thorndike

It's only people who are hysterical who can play hysterical parts.

Sybil Thorndike