I have seen good actresses fail in the part.

Simplicity, indeed, is beyond the reach of almost every actress by profession.
It requires a delicacy of feeling which they have not.

It requires a gentlewoman--a Julia Bertram.

You _will_ undertake it, I hope ?" turning to her with a look of anxious entreaty, which softened her a little; but while she hesitated what to say, her brother again interposed with Miss Crawford's better claim.
"No, no, Julia must not be Amelia.

It is not at all the part for her.
She would not like it.