Sarah Bernhardt Quotes

French - Actress October 22, 1845 - March 26, 1923

Legend remains victorious in spite of history.

Sarah Bernhardt

History Legend Remains Victorious

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

Sarah Bernhardt

Smoke Mind You Care

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 Soul Nothing Good Actor

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

Sarah Bernhardt

Love Food Me Words

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

Sarah Bernhardt

Success Always Permanent Intellectual

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

Sarah Bernhardt

Beauty Truth Truth Is Theatre

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

I Am Why Matter Playing

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

Ideas Born Country New

I adore Chicago. It is the pulse of America.

Sarah Bernhardt

America Chicago Pulse Adore

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 First Actor

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

Sarah Bernhardt

Life Rich Energy Oneself

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

Sarah Bernhardt

Theatre Ideas Crowd Reflex

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 Me My Life

It is in spending oneself that one becomes rich.

Sarah Bernhardt

Rich Oneself Becomes Spending

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

Sarah Bernhardt

Love Cricket English Very

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

Sarah Bernhardt

Theatre Long Short Never

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 Feeling

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

Sarah Bernhardt

Thoughts Action Stage Actor

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

King Appearance Play More

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 Poverty Joy

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