Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.

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

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

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The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.

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The actor is too prone to exaggerate his powers; he wants to play Hamlet when his appearance is more suitable to King Lear.

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What matters poverty? What matters anything to him who is enamoured of our art? Does he not carry in himself every joy and every beauty?

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I have often been asked why I am so fond of playing male parts. As a matter of fact, it is not male parts, but male brains that I prefer.

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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.

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Although all new ideas are born in France, they are not readily adopted there. It seems that they must first commence to prosper in a foreign country.

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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.

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