Actor Quotes by Sarah Bernhardt

I adore Chicago. It is the pulse of America.

— Sarah Bernhardt

Oscar Wilde: 'Do you mind if I smoke?' Sarah Bernhardt: 'I don't care if you burn.'

— Sarah Bernhardt

The theatre is the involuntary reflex of the ideas of the crowd.

— Sarah Bernhardt

I refuse the title of artist to those who owe their reputations to a physical deformity. I regard them as buffoons.

— Sarah Bernhardt

It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.

— Sarah Bernhardt

Life begets life. Energy becomes energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich

— Sarah Bernhardt

I have often been asked why I am so fond of playing male parts. As a matter of fact, it is not male parts,…

— Sarah Bernhardt

We must live for the few who know and appreciate us, who judge and absolve us, and for whom we have the same affection…

— Sarah Bernhardt

Legend remains victorious in spite of history.

— Sarah Bernhardt

It is in spending oneself that one becomes rich.

— Sarah Bernhardt

To be a good actor... it is necessary to have a firmly tempered soul, to be surprised at nothing, to resume each minute the…

— Sarah Bernhardt

Slow down? Rest? With all eternity before me?

— Sarah Bernhardt

The monster of advertisement...is a sort of octopus with innumerable tentacles. It throws out to right and left, in front and behind, its clammy…

— Sarah Bernhardt

I have, thanks to my travels, added to my stock all the superstitions of other countries. I know them all now, and in any…

— Sarah Bernhardt

The actor is too prone to exaggerate his powers; he wants to play Hamlet when his appearance is more suitable to King Lear.

— Sarah Bernhardt