Sarah Bernhardt

My only role in life is to be myself.

The art of the direct experience is in inverse proportion to the power of the language.

I am a prisoner in my skin.

Drama is the essence of life.

To be a great actress, one must first be a great woman.

Love is a great beautifier.

The stage is my home, my battlefield.

Every day is a new opportunity to shine.

I have no age. I am timeless.

Passion is the genesis of genius.

In the arts, as in life, nothing is ever quite the same twice.

My legs! Oh, my legs! Where are my legs?

The theater is the school of tears.

Beauty is a mysterious thing.

I live my life as an artist.

Fame is the scentless sunflower, with a hundred fragrance-less blooms that mean nothing.

To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further.

The more I grow, the more I thirst for the real.

Acting is not merely mimicry.

I am not a woman, I am a legend.