Sarah Bernhardt Quotes

Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.
Sarah Bernhardt

Love, Food, Everything

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

Mind, Care, Smoke

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

Theatre, Ideas, Crowd

I do love cricket - it's so very English.
Sarah Bernhardt

Love, Cricket, English

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

Life, Rich, Energy

For the theatre one needs long arms... an artiste with short arms can never make a fine gesture.
Sarah Bernhardt

Long, Short, Theatre

Permanent success cannot be achieved except by incessant intellectual labour, always inspired by the ideal.
Sarah Bernhardt

Success, Cannot, Inspired

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

Country, Born, Ideas

Legend remains victorious in spite of history.
Sarah Bernhardt

History, Remains, Spite

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

Beauty, Art, Him

Each action of the actor on the stage should be the visible concomitant of his thoughts.
Sarah Bernhardt

Thoughts, Action, Actor

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

Good, Anger, Strong

I adore Chicago. It is the pulse of America.
Sarah Bernhardt

America, Chicago, Adore

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

Why, Matter, Fact

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

Life, Moment, Against

It is in spending oneself that one becomes rich.
Sarah Bernhardt

Rich, Oneself, Spending

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

Character, Impossible, Betray

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

Play, Actor, Wants

The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.
Sarah Bernhardt

Beauty, Truth, Theatre

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

Good, Nothing, Soul

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Biography

Nationality: French

Born: October 22, 1845

Died: March 26, 1923

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