French - Actress | October 22, 1845 - March 26, 1923
Legend remains victorious in spite of history.
Sarah Bernhardt
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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.
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Oscar Wilde: 'Do you mind if I smoke?' Sarah Bernhardt: 'I don't care if you burn.'
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Permanent success cannot be achieved except by incessant intellectual labour, always inspired by the ideal.
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Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
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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.
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The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.
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I do love cricket - it's so very English.
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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.
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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.
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I adore Chicago. It is the pulse of America.
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Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.
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