Sarah Bernhardt

“You must have this charm to reach the pinnacle.”

“My life is not a romance, it is a drama.”

“What would be the good of living if we did not have the courage to attempt the impossible?”

“To be an actress, you must be a little bit of a sorceress.”

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

“I have been, am, in revolt against all conventions... and traditions.”

“Legend remains victorious in history.”

“I adore change.”

“I have no fear of ghosts, and I have never heard it said that so much harm is done by the dead as by the living.”

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

“The artist's vocation is to send light into the human heart.”

“It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.”

“The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.”

“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 who is not an artist is a traitor to his own nature.”

“The theater is the only place in the world where a soul can be revealed.”

“Art is a part of my life. It is the air I breathe.”