We ought to hate very rarely, as it is too fatiguing; remain indifferent to a great deal, forgive often and never forget.

The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.

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

Legend remains victorious in spite of history.

If I have a foreign accent—which I much regret—it is cosmopolitan, but not Teutonic. I am a daughter of the great Jewish race, and my somewhat uncultivated language is the outcome of our enforced wanderings.

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.

Art is not about something, Art is something