Sarah Bernhardt
Sarah Bernhardt
Sarah Bernhardtwas a French stage and early film actress. She was referred to as "the most famous actress the world has ever known", and is regarded as one of the finest actors of all time. Bernhardt made her fame on the stages of France in the 1870s, at the beginning of the Belle Epoque period, and was soon in demand in Europe and the Americas. She developed a reputation as a sublime dramatic actress and tragedienne, earning the nickname "The...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionStage Actress
Date of Birth22 October 1844
CityParis, France
CountryFrance
Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
It is in spending oneself that one becomes rich.
Those who know the joys and miseries of celebrities when they have passed the age of forty know how to defend themselves.
A defective voice will always preclude an artist from achieving the complete development of his art, however intelligent he may be.... The voice is an instrument which the artist must learn to use with suppleness and sureness, as if it were a limb.
Slow down? Rest? With all eternity before me?
The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.
... actors of the first water are not more plentiful than playwrights of genius.
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.
The actor is too prone to exaggerate his powers; he wants to play Hamlet when his appearance is more suitable to King Lear.
I do love cricket - it's so very English.
Oscar Wilde: 'Do you mind if I smoke?' Sarah Bernhardt: 'I don't care if you burn.'
Each action of the actor on the stage should be the visible concomitant of his thoughts.