Quotes by Sarah Bernhardt - Page 1

Me pray? Never! I'm an atheist.
Sarah Bernhardt / Film Actress
Atheism
Atheist
Praying
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I do love cricket - it's so very English.
Sarah Bernhardt / Film Actress
Cricket
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Art is not about something, Art is something
Sarah Bernhardt / Film Actress
Art
Art Is
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I adore Chicago. It is the pulse of America.
Sarah Bernhardt / Film Actress
Adore
America
Chicago
Cities
Pulse
Usa
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Slow down? Rest? With all eternity before me?
Sarah Bernhardt / Film Actress
Action
Energy
Eternity
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Legend remains victorious in spite of history.
Sarah Bernhardt / Film Actress
History
Legends
Remains
Spite
Legend
Victorious
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It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
Sarah Bernhardt / Film Actress
Work
Energy
Greatest Wealth
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It is in spending oneself that one becomes rich.
Sarah Bernhardt / Film Actress
Oneself
Rich
Spending
Becomes
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The theatre is the involuntary reflex of the ideas of the crowd.
Sarah Bernhardt / Film Actress
Crowds
Ideas
Involuntary
Theatre
Crowd
Reflex
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Energy creates energy. It is by spending myself that I become rich.
Sarah Bernhardt / Film Actress
Happiness
Life
Energy
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Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.
Sarah Bernhardt / Film Actress
I Love You
Love
Valentine
Food
Sexy
Wine
Love Food Me
Words
Food Your Me
Love Food Your
Breath
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... actors of the first water are not more plentiful than playwrights of genius.
Sarah Bernhardt / Film Actress
Acting
Genius
Water
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Oscar Wilde: 'Do you mind if I smoke?' Sarah Bernhardt: 'I don't care if you burn.'
Sarah Bernhardt / Film Actress
Care
Don't Care
Mind
Smoke
Smoking
Wilde
Burn
Oscar
Sarah
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Each action of the actor on the stage should be the visible concomitant of his thoughts.
Sarah Bernhardt / Film Actress
Action
Actors
Should
Visible
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Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
Sarah Bernhardt / Film Actress
Begets
Energy
Oneself
Rich
Spending
Becomes
Creates
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For the theatre one needs long arms... an artiste with short arms can never make a fine gesture.
Sarah Bernhardt / Film Actress
Arms
Fine
Long
Needs
Theatre
Artiste
Gesture
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Permanent success cannot be achieved except by incessant intellectual labour, always inspired by the ideal.
Sarah Bernhardt / Film Actress
Congratulations
Incessant
Inspired
Intellectual
Labour
Permanent
Achieved
Except
Ideal
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The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.
Sarah Bernhardt / Film Actress
Absolute Truth
Proportion
Theatre
Truth Is
Absolute
Bodily
Chief
Consists
Proportions
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I refuse the title of artist to those who owe their reputations to a physical deformity. I regard them as buffoons.
Sarah Bernhardt / Film Actress
Acting
Artist
Titles
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We ought to hate very rarely, as it is too fatiguing; remain indifferent to a great deal, forgive often and never forget.
Sarah Bernhardt / Film Actress
Forgiving
Hate
Never Forget
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Those who know the joys and miseries of celebrities when they have passed the age of forty know how to defend themselves.
Sarah Bernhardt / Film Actress
Age
Joy
Misery
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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 / Film Actress
Kings
Actors
Appearance
Lear
Play
Suitable
Exaggerate
Hamlet
Prone
Powers
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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 / Film Actress
Art
Joy
Poverty
What Matters
Carry
Enamoured
Matters
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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 / Film Actress
Brain
Males
Matter
Male
Prefer
Brains
Fond
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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 / Film Actress
Anger
Incapable
Passion
Strong
Good Actor
Passions
Shaken
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New ideas come into this world somewhat like falling meteors, with a flash and an explosion, and perhaps somebody's castle-roof perforated.
Sarah Bernhardt / Film Actress
Fall
Ideas
Style
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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 / Film Actress
Adopted
Country
France
Ideas
New Ideas
Commence
Foreign Country
Prosper
Readily
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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 / Film Actress
Actors
Finished
Soul
Tasks
Barely
Good Actor
Laborious
Minute
Resume
Surprised
Task
Tempered
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[When asked at age 79 why her Paris apartment was located up many flights of stairs at the top of the building:] It's the only way I can still make the hearts of men beat faster.
Sarah Bernhardt / Film Actress
Men
Heart
Paris
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One should hate very little, because it's extremely fatiguing. One should despise much, forgive often and never forget. Pardon does not bring with it forgetfulness; at least not for me.
Sarah Bernhardt / Film Actress
Forgiveness
Forgiving
Hate
Littles
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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 / Film Actress
Business
Country
Critical
Critical Moments
Other Countries
Superstitions
Thanks
Life Moment Me
Added
Rise
Armed
Countries
Stock
Travels
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If I have a foreign accent—which I much regret—it is cosmopolitan, but not Teutonic. I am a daughter of the great Jewish race, and my somewhat uncultivated language is the outcome of our enforced wanderings.
Sarah Bernhardt / Film Actress
Daughter
Race
Regret
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A defective voice will always preclude an artist from achieving the complete development of his art, however intelligent he may be.... The voice is an instrument which the artist must learn to use with suppleness and sureness, as if it were a limb.
Sarah Bernhardt / Film Actress
Art
Intelligent
Voice
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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 / Film Actress
Actors
Betray
Betrayal
Character
Disappoint
Impossible
Raised
Author
Belong
Ceases
Curtain
Identify
Third
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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 arms, and gathers in, through its thousand little suckers, all the gossip and slander and praise afloat.
Sarah Bernhardt / Film Actress
Gossip
Monsters
Octopus
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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 is only a matter of satisfying the requirements that sustain life? All this is nothing without the charm of art.
Sarah Bernhardt / Film Actress
Art
Life
Drinking
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The dramatic art would appear to be rather a feminine art; it contains in itself all the artifices which belong to the province ofwoman: the desire to please, facility to express emotions and hide defects, and the faculty of assimilation which is the real essence of woman.
Sarah Bernhardt / Film Actress
Art
Essence
Real
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You must have this charm to reach the pinnacle. It is made of everything and of nothing, the striving will, the look, the walk, the proportions of the body, the sound of the voice, the ease of the gestures. It is not at all necessary to be handsome or to be pretty; all that is needful is charm.
Sarah Bernhardt / Film Actress
Looks
Sound
Voice
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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 indulgence. The rest I look upon as a mere crowd, lively or sad, loyal or corrupt, from whom there is nothing to be expected but fleeting emotions, either pleasant or unpleasant, which leave no trace behind them.
Sarah Bernhardt / Film Actress
Appreciate
Judging
Looks
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The artist's personality must be left in his dressing-room; his soul must be denuded of its own sensations and clothed with the base or noble qualities he is called upon to exhibit.... [he] must leave behind him the cares and vexations of life, throw aside his personality for several hours, and move in the dream of another life, forgetting everything.
Sarah Bernhardt / Film Actress
Dream
Artist
Moving
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Alas, we are the victims of advertisement. Those who taste the joys and sorrows of fame when they have passed forty, know how to look after themselves. They know what is concealed beneath the flowers, and what the gossip, the calumnies, and the praise are worth. But as for those who win fame when they are twenty, they know nothing, and are caught up in the whirlpool.
Sarah Bernhardt / Film Actress
Flower
Gossip
Winning
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