Sarah Bernhardt Quotes

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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.

  • Slow down? Rest? With all eternity before me?

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

    Cricket  
    c.1905 On being taken to see a game of football in Manchester. Quoted in R Buckle Nijinsky (1971).
  • 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.

  • 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.

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

    Sarah Bernhardt (1924). “The Art of the Theatre”
  • Each action of the actor on the stage should be the visible concomitant of his thoughts.

    Actors   Action   Should  
  • New ideas come into this world somewhat like falling meteors, with a flash and an explosion, and perhaps somebody's castle-roof perforated.

    Fall   Ideas   Style  
  • The actor is too prone to exaggerate his powers; he wants to play Hamlet when his appearance is more suitable to King Lear.

    Kings   Play   Actors  
    Sarah Bernhardt (1924). “The Art of the Theatre”
  • 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.

    Strong   Anger   Passion  
    Sarah Bernhardt (1924). “The Art of the Theatre”
  • Art is not about something, Art is something

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

    Sarah Bernhardt (1924). “The Art of the Theatre”
  • ... actors of the first water are not more plentiful than playwrights of genius.

    Water   Acting   Genius  
    Sarah Bernhardt (1924). “The Art of the Theatre”
  • Legend remains victorious in spite of history.

    Legends   Spite   Remains  
    Sarah Bernhardt (1968). “Memories of my life, being my personal, professional, and social recollections as woman and artist”
  • I refuse the title of artist to those who owe their reputations to a physical deformity. I regard them as buffoons.

    Artist   Acting   Titles  
    Sarah Bernhardt (1924). “The Art of the Theatre”
  • 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 (1968). “Memories of my life, being my personal, professional, and social recollections as woman and artist”
  • I adore Chicago. It is the pulse of America.

    Cities   Usa   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 male brains that I prefer.

    Brain   Males   Matter  
    Sarah Bernhardt (1924). “The Art of the Theatre”
  • 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.

    Daughter   Regret   Race  
  • 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.

    Country   Ideas   France  
    Sarah Bernhardt (1924). “The Art of the Theatre”
  • 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.

    Dream   Moving   Artist  
  • It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.

    "Madame Sarah". Book by Cornelia Otis Skinner, p. xvi, 1966.
  • 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.

  • We ought to hate very rarely, as it is too fatiguing; remain indifferent to a great deal, forgive often and never forget.

    Sarah Bernhardt (1968). “Memories of my life, being my personal, professional, and social recollections as woman and artist”
  • For the theatre one needs long arms... an artiste with short arms can never make a fine gesture.

    Long   Theatre   Needs  
    1907 Memories of My Life.
  • 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.

    Soul   Tasks   Actors  
    Sarah Bernhardt (1924). “The Art of the Theatre”
  • Those who know the joys and miseries of celebrities when they have passed the age of forty know how to defend themselves.

    Joy   Age   Misery  
    Sarah Bernhardt (2013). “My Double Life: The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt”, p.372, Library of Alexandria
  • 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.

    Voice   Sound   Looks  
  • Energy creates energy. It is by spending myself that I become rich.

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

    Smoking   Mind   Care  
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