"The audience may not have felt it was right and the author may have felt a little upset, but every part I've played I've twisted around in my mind until I've made it into something of my own. Looking back over it, I didn't deliberately sit down and plan like that, but it does read like it."

(Katharine Cornell, diva del teatro statunitense; Berlino, 16 febbraio 1893 – Tisbury, 9 giugno 1974)