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

#anger #being #every #feeling #good

I adore Chicago. It is the pulse of America. ↗

— Sarah Bernhardt

#america #chicago #i #pulse

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

#asked #been #brains #fact #fond

It is in spending oneself that one becomes rich. ↗

— Sarah Bernhardt

#oneself #rich #spending

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

#appearance #exaggerate #hamlet #his #king

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

— Sarah Bernhardt

#absolute truth #beauty #bodily #chief #consists

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

#barely #been #each #finished #firmly

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

#art #beauty #carry #does #enamoured