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Legend remains victorious in spite of history.

~Sarah Bernhardt

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Oscar Wilde: 'Do you mind if I smoke?' Sarah Bernhardt: 'I don't care if you burn.'

~Sarah Bernhardt

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

~Sarah Bernhardt

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Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.

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Permanent success cannot be achieved except by incessant intellectual labour, always inspired by the ideal.

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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.

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Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.

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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.

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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.

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Once the curtain is raised, the actor is ceases to belong to himself. He belongs to his character, to his author, to his public. He must do the impossible to identify himself with the first, not to betray the second, and not to disappoint the third.

~Sarah Bernhardt

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Actress

Born: October 22nd, 1845

Died: March 26th, 1923

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