Sarah Bernhardt Quotes - Page 2

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.

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.

Me pray? Never! I'm an atheist.

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

I adore Chicago. It is the pulse of America.

I refuse the title of artist to those who owe their reputations to a physical deformity. I regard them as buffoons.

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

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

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.

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

... actors of the first water are not more plentiful than playwrights of genius.

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

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.

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