Sarah Bernhardt Quotes

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• Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.
• Oscar Wilde: 'Do you mind if I smoke?' Sarah Bernhardt: 'I don't care if you burn.'
• The theatre is the involuntary reflex of the ideas of the crowd.
• For the theatre one needs long arms... an artiste with short arms can never make a fine gesture.
• I do love cricket - it's so very English.
• Permanent success cannot be achieved except by incessant intellectual labour, always inspired by the ideal.
• Legend remains victorious in spite of history.
• He who is incapable of feeling strong passions, of being shaken by anger, of living in every sense of the word, will never be a…
• Each action of the actor on the stage should be the visible concomitant of his thoughts.
• I adore Chicago. It is the pulse of America.
• I have often been asked why I am so fond of playing male parts. As a matter of fact, it is not male parts, but…
• Once the curtain is raised, the actor is ceases to belong to himself. He belongs to his character, to his author, to his public. He…
• The actor is too prone to exaggerate his powers; he wants to play Hamlet when his appearance is more suitable to King Lear.
• The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.
• Although all new ideas are born in France, they are not readily adopted there. It seems that they must first commence to prosper in a…
• To be a good actor... it is necessary to have a firmly tempered soul, to be surprised at nothing, to resume each minute the laborious…
• I have, thanks to my travels, added to my stock all the superstitions of other countries. I know them all now, and in any critical…
• What would life be without art? Science prolongs life. To consist of what-eating, drinking, and sleeping? What is the good of living longer if it…
• It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
• We must live for the few who know and appreciate us, who judge and absolve us, and for whom we have the same affection and…

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