Author: Sarah Bernhardt

Quotes

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?

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

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

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

- Sarah Bernhardt

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

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

- Sarah Bernhardt

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.

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

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

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

- Sarah Bernhardt

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

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

- Sarah Bernhardt

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

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

- Sarah Bernhardt

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.

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

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