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Sarah Bernhardt
French
Actress
About the author
Permanent success cannot be achieved except by incessant intellectual labour, always inspired by the ideal.
Sarah Bernhardt,
French
Actress
#Success
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 moment of my life, they all rise up in armed legions for or against me.
Sarah Bernhardt,
French
Actress
#Now
#Life
#Countries
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 male brains that I prefer.
Sarah Bernhardt,
French
Actress
#Fact
I do love cricket - it's so very English.
Sarah Bernhardt,
French
Actress
#Love
#English
#Cricket
I adore Chicago. It is the pulse of America.
Sarah Bernhardt,
French
Actress
#America
#Chicago
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 good actor.
Sarah Bernhardt,
French
Actress
#Will
#Feeling
#Being
#Anger
#Sense
#Living
#Word
#Actor
For the theatre one needs long arms... an artiste with short arms can never make a fine gesture.
Sarah Bernhardt,
French
Actress
#Needs
#Theatre
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 foreign country.
Sarah Bernhardt,
French
Actress
#Country
#First
#Ideas
#France
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,
French
Actress
#Play
#Actor
#Appearance
Each action of the actor on the stage should be the visible concomitant of his thoughts.
Sarah Bernhardt,
French
Actress
#Action
#Actor
#Thoughts
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 task that has barely just been finished.
Sarah Bernhardt,
French
Actress
#Nothing
#Soul
#Actor
Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.
Sarah Bernhardt,
French
Actress
#Words
#Food
#Wine
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 must do the impossible to identify himself with the first, not to betray the second, and not to disappoint the third.
Sarah Bernhardt,
French
Actress
#Character
#Public
#First
#Actor
It is in spending oneself that one becomes rich.
Sarah Bernhardt,
French
Actress
Oscar Wilde: 'Do you mind if I smoke?' Sarah Bernhardt: 'I don't care if you burn.'
Sarah Bernhardt,
French
Actress
#Mind
#Care
The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.
Sarah Bernhardt,
French
Actress
#Truth
#Beauty
#Theatre
The theatre is the involuntary reflex of the ideas of the crowd.
Sarah Bernhardt,
French
Actress
#Ideas
#Theatre
Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
Sarah Bernhardt,
French
Actress
#Life
#Energy
Legend remains victorious in spite of history.
Sarah Bernhardt,
French
Actress
#History
What matters poverty? What matters anything to him who is enamoured of our art? Does he not carry in himself every joy and every beauty?
Sarah Bernhardt,
French
Actress
#Art
#Poverty
#Beauty
#Joy