You must have this charm to reach the pinnacle. It is made of everything and of nothing, the striving will, the look, the walk, the proportions of the body sound of the voice, the ease of the gestures. It is not at all necessary to be handsome or to be pretty; all that is needful is charm.
—Sarah Bernhardt
Topics: Acting, Actors
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
Topics: Superstition
For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long than too short. An artiste with short arms can never, never make a fine gesture.
—Sarah Bernhardt
Topics: Acting, Theater, Actors
The monster of advertisement… is a sort of octopus with innumerable tentacles. It throws out to right and left, in front and behind, its clammy arms, and gathers in, through its thousand little suckers, all the gossip and slander and praise afloat, to spit out again at the public.
—Sarah Bernhardt
Topics: Gossip
Life begets life. Energy becomes energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
—Sarah Bernhardt
The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.
—Sarah Bernhardt
Topics: Theater
We must live for the few who know and appreciate us, who judge and absolve us, and for whom we have the same affection and indulgence. The rest I look upon as a mere crowd, lively or sad, loyal or corrupt, from whom there is nothing to be expected but fleeting emotions, either pleasant or unpleasant, which leave no trace behind them.
—Sarah Bernhardt
Topics: Commitment, Public opinion
All the pictures that hung in my memory before I knew you have faded and given place to our radient moments together. Now I cannot live apart from you…Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.
—Sarah Bernhardt
Topics: Love, Romance
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