Quote by Sarah Bernhardt
For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too

For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long than too short. An artiste with short arms can never, never make a fine gesture. – Sarah Bernhardt

Other quotes by Sarah Bernhardt

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. – Sarah Bernhardt

Category:
Anger
Read Quote

We must live for the few who know and appreciate us, who judge and absolve us, and for whom we have the same affection and indulgence. The rest I look upon as a mere crowd…from whom there is nothing to be expected but fleeting emotions. – Sarah Bernhardt

Category:
Commitment
Read Quote

Permanent success cannot be achieved except by incessant intellectual labour, always inspired by the ideal. – Sarah Bernhardt

Category:
Success
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Theater
category

For my part, I confess I seldom listen to the players: one has so much to do, in looking about and finding out ones acquaintance, that, really, one has no time to mind the stage. One merely comes to meet ones friends, and show that ones alive. – Fanny Burney

Category:
Theater

I just love, I love, I love movies. – Laura Dern

Category:
Theater

The theater, which is in no thing, but makes use of everything – Antonin Artaud

Category:
Theater

Idealistic producing is safe. Sensibly projected in the theater, the fine thing always does pay and always will. – Minnie Maddern Fiske

Category:
Theater

Random Quotes

My work is about my life, and what I want to do with it. – Alice Walker

Category:
work

Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication. – Marshall McLuhan

Category:
communication

I have never, not once, violated my public trust. – Alan Mollohan

Category:
Trust

Over and over, we hear politicians say they cant spend our tax dollars on environmental protection when the economy is so fragile. – David Suzuki

Category:
environmental