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Me pray? Never! I'm an atheist.
— Sarah Bernhardt
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Sarah Bernhardt
stage actor, film actor, dancer, writer, actor, painter, sculptor
1844 – 1923
Sarah Bernhardt was a French stage actress who starred in some of the most popular French plays of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including La Dame aux Camélias by Alexandre Dumas fils, Ruy Blas by Victor Hugo, Fédora and La Tosca by Victorien Sardou, and L'Aiglon by Edmond Rostand. She played female and male roles, including Shakespeare's Hamlet. Rostand called her "the queen of the pose and the princess of the gesture", and Hugo praised her "golden voice". She made several theatrical tours worldwide and was one of the early prominent actresses to make sound recordings and act in motion pictures.
All Quotes by Sarah Bernhardt
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Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
— Sarah Bernhardt
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Acting is all internal, but must be externalized.
— Sarah Bernhardt
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Victor Hugo could not promise without keeping his word. He was not like me: I promise everything with the firm intention of keeping my promises, and two hours after I have forgotten all about them. If any one reminds me of what I have promised, I tear my hair, and to make up for my forgetfulness I say anything, I buy presents — in fact, I complicate my life with useless worries. It has always been thus, and always will be so.
— Sarah Bernhardt
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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
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Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.
— Sarah Bernhardt
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Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.
— Sarah Bernhardt