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

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

It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.

Art is not about something, Art is something

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

We ought to hate very rarely, as it is too fatiguing; remain indifferent to a great deal, forgive often and never forget.

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

[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.

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.

To be a good actor... it is necessary to have a firmly tempered soul, to be surprised at nothing, to resume each minute the laborious task that has barely just been finished.

Oscar Wilde: 'Do you mind if I smoke?' Sarah Bernhardt: 'I don't care if you burn.'

If your life's at a juncture and you need to think about things, there's nowhere better than home. However old you are.

Scars speak for you. They say you're strong, and you've survived something that might have killed others.

Men who believe in good and evil, and who believe that good should win, should watch for those moments when it is possible to play God

The sun burnt on, drugging everything with warmth.

What did you do as a child that made that hours pass like minutes? [Herein lies the key to your earthy pursuits.]

I wanted to put a sheet in explaining what all the songs are about, but they didn't do it.

Shouldn't the world stop? Don't they know what has happened to me?

Believe that you are bigger than your difficulties, for you are, indeed.

Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason.

To spend life for something which outlasts it.