“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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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 
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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
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Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
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Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.
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The theatre is the involuntary reflex of the ideas of the crowd.
Sarah Bernhardt
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