For the theatre one needs long arms... an artiste with short arms can never make a fine gesture.
- Sarah Bernhardt
More Quotes By Sarah Bernhardt
- The monster of advertisement…is a sort of octopus with innumerable tentacles. It throws out to right and left,...
- [When asked at age 79 why her Paris apartment was located up many flights of stairs at the...
- You must have this charm to reach the pinnacle. It is made of everything and of nothing, the...
- Energy creates energy. It is by spending myself that I become rich.
- It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
- Art is not about something, Art is something
- We must live for the few who know and appreciate us, who judge and absolve us, and for...
- Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.
- We ought to hate very rarely, as it is too fatiguing; remain indifferent to a great deal, forgive...
- Once the curtain is raised, the actor is ceases to belong to himself. He belongs to his character,...
- Permanent success cannot be achieved except by incessant intellectual labour, always inspired by the ideal.
- The artist’s personality must be left in his dressing-room; his soul must be denuded of its own sensations...
- The dramatic art would appear to be rather a feminine art; it contains in itself all the artifices...
- He who is incapable of feeling strong passions, of being shaken by anger, of living in every sense...
- To be a good actor… it is necessary to have a firmly tempered soul, to be surprised at...
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