Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.
Sarah Bernhardt, born Henriette-Rosine Bernard, was a French stage actress who starred in some of the most popular French plays of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including La Dame aux Camélias, Ruy Blas, Fédora, La Tosca and L'Aiglon. She played both female and male roles, including Shakespeare's Hamlet.
Edmond Rostand called her "the queen of the pose and the princess of the gesture," and Victor Hugo praised her "golden voice." She made several theatrical tours worldwide and was one of the first prominent actresses to make sound recordings and act in motion pictures. She was also an accomplished painter and sculptor. At the height of her fame she commissioned the then-unknown artist Alphonse Mucha to create a lithographic poster for the play Gismonda.
Edmond Rostand called her "the queen of the pose and the princess of the gesture," and Victor Hugo praised her "golden voice." She made several theatrical tours worldwide and was one of the first prominent actresses to make sound recordings and act in motion pictures. She was also an accomplished painter and sculptor. At the height of her fame she commissioned the then-unknown artist Alphonse Mucha to create a lithographic poster for the play Gismonda.
Legend remains victorious in spite of history.
The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.
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.