Quotes by Sarah Bernhardt

Sarah Bernhardt

… actors of the first water are not more plentiful than playwrights of genius.

Acting

Genius

Water

[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.

Heart

Men

Paris

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

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.

Flower

Gossip

Winning

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

France

Ideas

Art is not about something, Art is something

Art

Art Is

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

Action

Actors

Should

Energy creates energy. It is by spending myself that I become rich.

Energy

Happiness

Life

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

Long

Needs

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.

Anger

Passion

Strong

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Action

Actors

Age

America

Anger

Appreciate

Art

Art Is

Artist

Atheism

Atheist

Betrayal

Brain

Business

Care

Character

Cities

Congratulations

Country

Cricket

Critical Moments

Crowds

Daughter

Dream

Drinking

Energy

Essence

Eternity

Fall

Flower

Forgiveness

Forgiving

France

Genius

Gossip

Greatest Wealth

Happiness

Hate

Heart

Ideas

Inspired

Intellectual

Intelligent

Joy

Judging

Kings

Legends

Life

Long

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Quotes by Sarah Bernhardt

Sarah Bernhardt

… actors of the first water are not more plentiful than playwrights of genius.

[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.

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.

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.

Art is not about something, Art is something

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

Energy creates energy. It is by spending myself that I become rich.

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

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.

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