Sarah Bernhardt Quotes

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• Art is not about something, Art is something

  Sarah Bernhardt

  Art, Art Is

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

  Sarah Bernhardt

  Life, Happiness, Energy

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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

  Appreciate, Judging, Looks

  Sarah Bernhardt (1968). “Memories of my life, being my personal, professional, and social recollections as woman and artist”

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• It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.

  Sarah Bernhardt

  Work, Greatest Wealth, Energy

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

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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

  Hate, Forgiving, Never Forget

  Sarah Bernhardt (1968). “Memories of my life, being my personal, professional, and social recollections as woman and artist”

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

  Sarah Bernhardt

  Energy, Action, Eternity

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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

  Voice, Sound, Looks

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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

  Betrayal, Character, Actors

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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

  Heart, Men, Paris

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

  Sarah Bernhardt

  Congratulations, Intellectual, Inspired

  Sarah Bernhardt (1924). “The Art of the Theatre”

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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

  Dream, Moving, Artist

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

  Sarah Bernhardt

  Smoking, Mind, Care

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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

  Brain, Males, Matter

  Sarah Bernhardt (1924). “The Art of the Theatre”

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• Legend remains victorious in spite of history.

  Sarah Bernhardt

  Legends, Spite, Remains

  Sarah Bernhardt (1968). “Memories of my life, being my personal, professional, and social recollections as woman and artist”

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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

  Art, Real, Essence

  Sarah Bernhardt (1924). “The Art of the Theatre”

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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

  Life, Art, Drinking

  Sarah Bernhardt (1924). “The Art of the Theatre”

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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

  Strong, Anger, Passion

  Sarah Bernhardt (1924). “The Art of the Theatre”

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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

  Forgiveness, Hate, Forgiving

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

  Sarah Bernhardt

  Long, Theatre, Needs

  1907 Memories of My Life.

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

  Sarah Bernhardt

  Love, Sexy, Valentine

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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

  Flower, Winning, Gossip

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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

  Fall, Ideas, Style

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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

  Soul, Tasks, Actors

  Sarah Bernhardt (1924). “The Art of the Theatre”

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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

  Daughter, Regret, Race

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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

  Octopus, Gossip, Monsters

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