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

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

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

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.

What would life be without art? Science prolongs life. To consist of what-eating, drinking, and sleeping? What is the good of living longer if it is only a matter of satisfying the requirements that sustain life? All this is nothing without the charm of art.

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

[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.