Sarah Bernhardt quotes

Sarah Bernhardt was a renowned French stage actress, often referred to as "the Divine Sarah." Her powerful performances and charisma captivated audiences around the world, making her a legend of the theater. She is remembered as one of the greatest actresses of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Here are 35 of her quotes:

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

Sarah Bernhardt

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

I adore Chicago. It is the pulse of America.

Sarah Bernhardt

Legend remains victorious in spite of history.

Sarah Bernhardt

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

Sarah Bernhardt

Me pray? Never! I'm an atheist.

Sarah Bernhardt

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

Sarah Bernhardt

Acting is all internal, but must be externalized.

Sarah Bernhardt

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

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

Sarah Bernhardt

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

Sarah Bernhardt

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

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.

Sarah Bernhardt

The theatre is the involuntary reflex of the ideas of the crowd.

Sarah Bernhardt

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

Sarah Bernhardt

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

Sarah Bernhardt

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

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

Sarah Bernhardt

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

Those who know the joys and miseries of celebrity when they have passed the age of forty know how to defend themselves.

Sarah Bernhardt

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

Sarah Bernhardt

It is in spending oneself that one becomes rich.

Sarah Bernhardt

Bernhardt's motto, a versatile french phrase meaning "anyway, nevertheless; really; how about that; finally"

Sarah Bernhardt

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Sarah Bernhardt

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Occupation: French Actress
Born: September 25, 1844
Died: March 23, 1923
Quotes count: 35
Wikipedia: Sarah Bernhardt

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