Energy creates energy. It is by spending myself that I become rich.

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.

Those who know the joys and miseries of celebrities when they have passed the age of forty know how to defend themselves.

For the theatre one needs long arms... an artiste with short arms can never make a fine gesture.

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

Each action of the actor on the stage should be the visible concomitant of his thoughts.

[When asked at age 79 why her Paris apartment was located up many flights of stairs at the top of the building:] It's the only way I can still make the hearts of men beat faster.