Sarah Bernhardt Quotes About Acting

Quotes about: Acting

• The artist's personality must be left in his dressing-room; his soul must be denuded of its own sensations and clothed with the base or noble qualities he is called upon to exhibit.... [he] must leave behind him the cares and vexations of life, throw aside his personality for several hours, and move in the dream of another life, forgetting everything.

  Sarah Bernhardt

  Dream, Moving, Artist

• 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.

  Sarah Bernhardt

  Art, Intelligent, Voice

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

  Sarah Bernhardt

  Water, Acting, Genius

  Sarah Bernhardt (1924). “The Art of the Theatre”

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

  Sarah Bernhardt

  Artist, Acting, Titles

  Sarah Bernhardt (1924). “The Art of the Theatre”

• The dramatic art would appear to be rather a feminine art; it contains in itself all the artifices which belong to the province ofwoman: the desire to please, facility to express emotions and hide defects, and the faculty of assimilation which is the real essence of woman.

  Sarah Bernhardt

  Art, Real, Essence

  Sarah Bernhardt (1924). “The Art of the Theatre”

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