Fitness and healthy lifestyle 

Clever statements by Ranevskaya. Faina Ranevskaya's apt sayings

About women

When the Sistine Madonna was brought to Moscow, everyone went to look at it. Faina Georgievna overheard a conversation between two officials from the Ministry of Culture. One claimed that the painting did not impress him. Ranevskaya noted:
- This lady for so many centuries made the impression on such people that now she herself has the right to choose whom to impress her and who not!
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“God created women beautiful so that men could love them, and stupid so that they could love men.
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"Which women, in your opinion, are inclined to be more loyal to the brunette or the blonde?"
Without hesitation, she answered: "Gray-haired!"
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- Women, of course, are smarter. Have you ever heard of a woman who would lose her head just because a man has beautiful legs?
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- Nothing can hold back the pressure of beauty! (Looking at the rip in her skirt)
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- The critics are Amazons in menopause.
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- When a jumper's legs hurt, she jumps while sitting.
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- With such an ass you have to stay at home!

About health

To the question: "Are you sick, Faina Georgievna?" - She usually replied: "No, I just look like that."
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- What I'm doing? I'm feigning health.
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- I feel, but bad.
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- Health is when you have pain in another place every day.
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- If the patient really wants to live, doctors are powerless.
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- Sclerosis cannot be cured, but you can forget about it.

About old age

Old age is when it is not bad dreams that disturb you, but bad reality.
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- I'm like an old palm tree at the station - no one needs it, but it's a pity to throw it away.
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- Old age is just disgusting. I believe that this is the ignorance of God when he allows you to live to old age.
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- It's scary when you are eighteen inside, when you admire the beautiful music, poetry, painting, and you already have to go, you haven't had time to do anything, but just start to live!
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- My God, as life slipped by, I never even heard the nightingales sing.
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- Thoughts are drawn to the beginning of life - it means that life is coming to an end.
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When I die, bury me and write on the monument: "She died of disgust."
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Getting old is boring, but it's the only way to live long.
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- Old age is a time when candles on a birthday cake are more expensive than the cake itself, and half of the urine goes for tests.

About work

The money has been eaten, but the shame remains. (About his works in cinema)
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- To act in a bad film is like spitting into eternity.
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- When I am not given a role, I feel like a pianist whose hands have been cut off.
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- I am Stanislavsky's miscarriage.
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- I'm a provincial actress. Wherever I served! Only in the city of Vezdesransk did not serve! ..
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- I, by virtue of the talent granted to me, squeaked like a mosquito.
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- I lived with many theaters, but I never got pleasure.
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- I watch this film for the fourth time and I must tell you that today the actors played like never before!
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- Success is the only unforgivable sin towards your loved one.
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- How wrong is the opinion that there are no irreplaceable actors.
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- We were accustomed to single-celled words, scanty thoughts, play after that Ostrovsky!
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- I receive letters: "Help to become an actor." I answer: "God will help!"
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- Perpetum male. (About director Y. Zavadsky)
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- He will die from the expansion of fantasy. (About director Y. Zavadsky)
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- Pee-pee in a tram - everything he did in art.
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- I do not recognize the word "play". You can play cards, at races, checkers. You have to live on stage.
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- The pearls that I will wear in the first act must be real, - demands the capricious young actress.
- Everything will be real, - Ranevskaya soothes her. - Everything: pearls in the first act, and poison in the last.

About myself and life

All my life I have been swimming in the toilet in the butterfly style.
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- I'm a social psychopath. Komsomol member with an oar. You can touch me in the subway. It’s me standing there, half bent over, in a bathing cap and brass panties, into which all the Octobrists are trying to get in. I work in the subway as a sculpture. I was polished with so many paws that even the great prostitute Nana could envy me.
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- The companion of glory is loneliness.
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- You need to live so that you are remembered by the bastards.
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- I was smart enough to live my life stupidly.
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- Who would know my loneliness? Damn him, this very talent that made me unhappy. But the audience really does love? What's the matter? Why is it so hard in the theater? In the cinema, too, Gangsters.
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- In Moscow, you can go out into the street dressed as God willing, and no one will pay attention. In Odessa, my chintz dresses cause widespread bewilderment - this is discussed in hairdressing salons, dental outpatient clinics, trams, and private houses. Everyone is saddened by my monstrous "stinginess" - for no one believes in poverty.
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- Loneliness as a condition is not treatable.
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- Damn nineteenth century, damn upbringing: I can't stand when men are sitting.
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- Life passes and does not bow like an angry neighbor.

On different topics

Spelling mistakes in writing are like a bug on a white blouse.
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- A fairy tale is when he married a frog, and she turned out to be a princess. And reality is when it's the other way around.
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- I spoke for a long time and unconvincingly, as if I were talking about the friendship of peoples.
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- The family replaces everything. Therefore, before starting it, you should think about what is more important to you: everything or family.
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- Let it be a little gossip that must disappear between us.
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- I do not come across faces, but a personal insult.
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- So that we can see how much we overeat, our stomach is located on the same side as our eyes.
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- A real man is a man who remembers a woman's birthday exactly and never knows how old she is. A man who never remembers a woman's birthday, but knows exactly how old she is, is her husband.
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- It was always incomprehensible to me - people are ashamed of poverty and not ashamed of wealth.
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- Do you understand my shallow thought?
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- A child from the first grade of school should be taught the science of loneliness.
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- Tolstoy said that there is no death, but there is love and the memory of the heart. The memory of the heart is so painful, it would be better if it did not exist ... It would be better to kill the memory forever.
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- This is not a room. This is a real well. I feel like a bucket that has been lowered there.
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- You will not believe, Faina Georgievna, but no one has kissed me yet, except the groom.
- Are you bragging, dear, or complaining?
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An employee of the Radio Committee N. constantly worried about dramas because of her love relationship with a colleague, whose name was Sima: she was crying because of another quarrel, then he left her, then she had an abortion from him Ranevskaya called her "the victim of Hera Sima".
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Once Ranevskaya was asked: "Why are beautiful women more successful than smart ones?"
- It's obvious: there are very few blind men, and a dime a dozen stupid men.
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How many times does a woman blush in her life?
- Four times: on their wedding night, when they cheat on their husband for the first time, when they take money for the first time, when they give money for the first time.
And the man?
- Two times: the first time when the second cannot, the second when the first cannot.
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Ranevskaya with all her household and huge luggage arrives at the station.
“It's a pity that we didn't take the piano,” says Faina Georgievna.
- Not funny, - one of the accompanying remarks.
- Really stupid, - Ranevskaya sighs. - The fact is that I left all the tickets on the piano.
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Once Yuri Zavadsky, artistic director of the Theater. Mossovet, where Faina Georgievna Ranevskaya worked (and with whom she had a far from cloudless relationship), shouted in the heat of the actress: "Faina Georgievna,
you have devoured my entire directorial plan with your acting! "
- That's what I have a feeling that I ate shit! - retorted Ranevskaya.
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- Today I killed 5 flies: two males and three females.
- How did you define it?
- Two sat on a beer bottle, and three on a mirror, - explained Faina Georgievna.
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Walking down the street, Ranevskaya was pushed by some man, and even cursed with dirty words. Faina Georgievna told him:
- For a number of reasons, I cannot now answer you with the words you use. But I sincerely hope that when you get home, your mother will jump out of the doorway and bite you properly.
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Actors discuss at a troupe meeting a comrade who is accused of homosexuality:
"This is molestation of youth, this is a crime"
- My God, an unhappy country where a person cannot dispose of his ass, - Ranevskaya sighed.
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"Lesbianism, homosexuality, masochism, sadism are not perversions," Ranevskaya strictly explains: "There are, in fact, only two perversions: field hockey and ice ballet."
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Explaining to someone why the condom is white, Ranevskaya said:
"Because white makes you look fat."
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“I don’t drink, I don’t smoke anymore and I have never cheated on my husband because I never had one,” Ranevskaya said, anticipating possible questions from the journalist.
- So what, - the journalist does not lag behind, - so you have absolutely no shortcomings?
- In general, no, - Ranevskaya answered modestly, but with dignity. And after a short pause, she added:
"True, I have a big ass and sometimes I lie a little!"

Faina Georgievna Ranevskaya is a Soviet actress, called the queen of the background. Almost all of her film roles were fleeting. She only briefly appeared on the screen, but Ranevskaya remained in the hearts of the audience forever. Her catch phrases and aphorisms went "to the people", not having time to fly off the language of the actress. Biting, witty, sometimes beyond the bounds of decency - they are still in demand today.


Faina Ranevkaya was born in Taganrog, back in 1896. When she turned 19, the girl went to conquer Moscow. However, she was not taken to the theater school, citing the fact that Ranevskaya did not have talent. Faina Georgievna was not particularly upset, and entered another private school. She spent the next nineteen years on the stage, changing several theaters. The actress came to the cinema when she was 38 years old.

It is not known why such a talented actress has never received the long-awaited leading role for all her time in the cinema. But the audience immediately fell in love with the charismatic and witty actress. They waited with bated breath for her appearance on the screen, and then the expressions of her heroines were actively involved in the conversation at any opportunity.


Faina Georgievna had funny and witty phrases for literally any occasion. Whatever worries you - politics, appearance, grumpy spouse, annoying guests, dull health, lack of attention - the winged ones will become a real medicine. They will make you smile and remember that our life is not colored with one gray color, but shines with all the shades of the rainbow.

Ranevskaya gave out funny phrases, giving interviews, communicating with colleagues, friends and fans. It is interesting that the actress never used templates, did not think over her speech and did not prepare for sparkling humor. Funny phrases were always born spontaneously.



Other expressions became winged, flying off the lips of the character played by Ranevskaya. The most popular saying of that time was "Mulya, don't make me nervous!" This phrase was shouted by the children at the sight of the actress, but it was often recalled by journalists and friends of Faina Georgievna. Even Brezhnev did not ignore this catch phrase, awarding Ranevskaya with the Order of Lenin.

Ranevskaya was witty not only on stage, but also in everyday life. Her funny expressions helped to cope with the annoyance. For example, once Faina Georgievna went on a trip.
At the station, she sighed and told her family:
- Eh, it's a pity they didn't take the piano with us.
“Not funny at all,” the annoyed relatives replied.
- Of course, it's not funny, - Ranevskaya agreed. - I left all the tickets on the piano lid.

The actress gave parting words to her guests:
- When you are at my door, knock your feet.
- But why with your feet? - future visitors were surprised.
- How else? Are you going to come to me empty-handed?

A sense of humor and a sharp mind helped the actress not only cope with everyday difficulties, but also without losing dignity to respond to rudeness. Once, on a crowded street, Faina Georgievna was pushed by a passer-by. Without even apologizing, the unpleasant man with extremely vulgar words expressed to Ranevskaya his dissatisfaction with the fact that she was hindering his movement.

However, the lady quickly found the answer:
- What a pity that today I cannot stoop to your level and answer you in the same words. However, I hope that when you get home, your mother will run out from behind the fence and bite you properly.



The brilliant actress did not live a month before her 88th birthday. Few know that the surname under which Faina Georgievna gained popularity and popular love is a pseudonym that she took in her youth, replacing her surname Feldman. Why did the young Faina choose this option? The new surname was taken from the play "The Cherry Orchard". Thus, the aspiring actress wanted to pay tribute to her fellow countryman - Anton Pavlovich Chekhov.


Despite her giftedness and talent, she was lonely all her life. But we still use her best catch phrases and expressions. And it is likely that even our children will remember and use those funny and witty aphorisms that have become part of our folklore thanks to Faina Ranevskaya.

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site decided to recall the witty statements of the great actress, which at one time forced the interlocutors to be silent for a long time.

Quotes

  • All my life I have been swimming in the toilet in the butterfly style.
  • We were accustomed to single-celled words, scanty thoughts, play after that Ostrovsky!
  • Horseradish, put on the opinion of others, ensures a calm and happy life.
  • Under the most beautiful peacock tail is the most common chicken ass. So less pathos, gentlemen.
  • I am like eggs: I participate, but I don't.
  • Why are all fools such women?
  • Do you know what it is to act in films? Imagine that you are washing in a bath, and a tour is being brought there.
  • Life is a long leap from p * zd to the grave.
  • I'm like an old palm tree at the station - no one needs it, but it's a pity to throw it away.
  • There is no need for an actress if it is necessary for a role.
  • When I start to write my memoirs, then the phrases: “I was born in the family of a poor oil industrialist ...” - nothing works for me.
  • To gain recognition, one must, even must, die.
  • Lesbianism, homosexuality, masochism, sadism are not perversions. In fact, there are only two perversions: field hockey and ice ballet.
  • Pretty people shit too.
  • I don't recognize the word "play." You can play cards, at races, checkers. You have to live on stage.
  • Everything pleasant in this world is either harmful, or immoral, or leads to obesity.
  • I hate you. Everywhere I go, everyone looks around and says: “Look, this is Mulya, don’t make me nervous, she’s coming.”
  • Everyone is free to dispose of his ass as he wants. So I pick mine up and fuck it.
  • I receive letters: "Help to become an actor." I answer: "God will help!"
  • Women are, of course, smarter. Have you ever heard of a woman who would lose her head just because a man has beautiful legs?
  • Pee-pee in a tram - everything he did in art.
  • Talent is self-doubt and excruciating dissatisfaction with oneself and one's own shortcomings, which I have never met with mediocrity.
  • This is the fourth time I have watched this film and I must tell you that today the actors played like never before.
  • It is better to be a good person, "swearing" than a quiet, well-mannered creature.

Stories about the actress

Once Ranevskaya stood completely naked in her make-up dressing room. And she smoked. Suddenly, the director, manager of the Mossovet Theater Valentin Shkolnikov entered her without knocking. And he froze, dumbfounded. Faina Georgievna calmly asked: "Aren't you shocked that I smoke?"

Explaining to someone why the condom is white, Ranevskaya said: "Because white makes you look fat."

Ranevskaya was asked: "What, in your opinion, women are inclined to be more loyal to a brunette or a blonde?" Without hesitation, she replied: "Gray-haired!".

Once at the theater, a young capricious actress said: "The pearls that I will wear in the first act must be real." "Everything will be real," Ranevskaya soothes her, - "Everything: pearls in the first act, and poison in the last".

© AST Publishing House LLC, 2014

© Original-layout, LLC "Knizhkin Dom", 2014

© F. Ranevskaya

Through laughter and tears

And also, my dear, remember: I don't trust myself to bad people ...



And you know, I don't like flowers. Trees are thinkers, and flowers are cocottes.

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My God, how life has slipped by! I've never even heard the nightingales sing.

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My God, how old I am - I still remember decent people!

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God made women beautiful so that men could love them, and stupid so that they could love men.

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I'm afraid to play - it's scary. I've been playing for sixty years. And I'm still afraid, I'm afraid ...

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I saw the vileness: "Uncle Vanya" - a film. Everything is as if inside out. Mediocre. Impudently, despicably, they made Chekhov the most boring bore, they play despicably.

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In Moscow, you can go out into the street dressed as God willing, and no one will pay attention. In Odessa, my chintz dresses cause widespread bewilderment - this is discussed in hairdressing salons, dental outpatient clinics, trams, and private houses. Everyone is saddened by my monstrous "stinginess" - for no one believes in poverty.

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During the rehearsal, Zavadsky was offended by the actors for something, could not restrain himself, shouted and ran out of the rehearsal hall, slamming the door, shouting: "I'll go, I'll hang myself!" Everyone was depressed. In the silence, Ranevskaya's calm voice was heard: “Yuri Alexandrovich will be back now. At this time he goes to the toilet. "

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Everyone who loved me did not like me. And whom I loved, they did not love me.

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The theater is a mess of unprecedented power, it’s even a shame to figure in it in old age. I don’t go to the city, but I lie more and think about what I should do with shameful things. I meet with my colleagues because of the need to "create" with them, they are all disgusting to me with their cynicism, which I hate for its general availability ...

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For a number of reasons, I cannot now answer you with the words you use. But I sincerely hope that when you get home, your mother will jump out of the doorway and bite you properly.

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In the theater, I was loved by the talented, mediocre hated, the mongrels bit and tore me apart.

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Memories are the wealth of old age.

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In old age, the main thing is a sense of dignity. And I was deprived of it.

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You have no idea how tedious my acting popularity is. For example, on New Year's Eve, up to a thousand greetings - I sit like a convict, I write amiable answers ... Old, in order to enjoy everything vain ...

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The family has a director.

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"Stupidity is a kind of insanity" is my usual thought in bad translation. My God, how many "madmen" are around!

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The girl married a Jew. Girlfriends ask:

- Well, how?

- Oh, girls, I knew that Jews are circumcised, but so short!

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Dealers, adventurers and all sorts of petty swindlers of the pen! They trade souls like buttons.

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It has always been a mystery to me how great actors could play with an actor who has nothing to take, nothing to get infected with, even a runny nose! How to explain mediocrity: no one will come to you, because there is nothing to take from you. I am leaving you because you have nothing to take. In general, I do not recognize the word "play". Let the children play. Let the musicians play. The actor must live.

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"He did not know my soul, because he loved her." (Tolstoy.)

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If the patient really wants to live, doctors are powerless.

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If I, yielding to requests, began to write about myself, it would be a plaintive book - "Fate is a whore."

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If a woman tells a man that he is the smartest, then she understands that she will not find another such fool.

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If a person in winter, in the cold, did not pick up a stray dog, this person is rubbish, capable of all meanness. And I’m not wrong.

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If you have insomnia, count to three. And if it doesn't help - until half past three.

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If a woman walks with her head down, she has a lover! If a woman walks with her head held high, she has a lover! If a woman keeps her head straight, she has a lover! And in general - if a woman has a head, then she has a lover!

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To love a friend is not to spare yourself.

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There are some fools who are jealous of fame.

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There are people in whom God lives, there are people in whom the devil lives, there are people in whom only worms live ...

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- The pearls that I will wear in the first act must be real, - demands the capricious young actress.

- Everything will be real, - Ranevskaya soothes her. - Everything: pearls in the first act, and poison in the last.

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A woman in the theater washes the toilet. I ask her to work for me, to clean the apartment. Answers: "I can't, I love art."

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A woman must have two qualities in order to succeed in life. She must be smart enough to be liked by stupid men, and stupid enough to be liked by smart men.

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Women are, of course, smarter. Have you ever heard of a woman who would lose her head just because a man has beautiful legs?

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My life ... I lived around, everything did not work out. Like a redhead by the carpet.

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Life is a short walk before eternal sleep.

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You have to live so that you are remembered by the bastards.

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The few animals were included in the Red Book, and there are many of them in the Book about tasty and healthy food.

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Either I'm getting old and stupid, or today's youth are not like anything, '' Ranevskaya once said with bitterness. - Before, I just knew how to answer their questions, but now I don't even understand what they are asking about.

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Zavadsky is given awards not according to ability, but according to needs. It is strange that he does not have the title of "Mother Heroine".

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Sometimes something clever comes to mind, but I immediately forget it. The clever has not visited my brains for a long time.

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You know, when I saw this bald man on an armored car, I realized: big trouble awaits us. (About Lenin.)

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I don't get along with everyday life! Money bothers me both when it is not there and when it is there. (She complained that if she had a lot of money, everyone would know what her good taste is. Lack of money is a faithful companion of her whole life.)

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When I die, bury me and write on the monument: "She died of disgust."

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Once, when Ranevskaya still lived in the same apartment with the Wulfs, and little Alyosha was capricious at night and did not fall asleep, Pavel Leontyevna suggested:

- Maybe I'll sing him something?

- Well, why so immediately, - objected Ranevskaya. - Let's try again in an amicable way.

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How erroneous is the opinion that there are no irreplaceable actors.

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You know, there are such winged words: "Talent is faith in yourself." And in my opinion, talent is self-doubt and painful dissatisfaction with oneself, with one's own shortcomings, which, by the way, I have never met with mediocrity. They always say this about themselves: “Today I played amazingly like never before!”, “Do you know how humble I am? All Europe knows how humble I am! "

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For performances of works on stage and in the theater, writers and composers receive royalties from the box office.

Ranevskaya once said about this:

- And the playwrights are well settled - they receive royalties from each performance of their plays! After all, no one gets anything like that. Take the architect Rerberg, for example. According to his project, the building of the Central Telegraph on Tverskaya was built in Moscow. Even a plaque hangs with the inscription that this building was erected according to the project of Ivan Ivanovich Rerberg. However, he is not paid royalties for the telegrams that are served in his house!

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How severely the "creator" punished me - he gave me a feeling of compassion. Now I read in the newspaper that after the recent earthquake in Italy, after the death of thousands of lives, a new tragedy happened - a snow storm. The height of the snow is up to six meters, mountains of snow fell on the houses (obviously, where the poor live) and buried everything under them. I called N.I., told her about the tragedy in southern Italy and my despair. She responded by talking about the success of her book!

… How lonely I am in this terrible world of troubles and heartlessness.

If at least one person, one animal suffered on the entire planet, then I would be unhappy, as now.

“How much love, and there is no one to go to the pharmacy,” said Faina Ranevskaya about fans who give her armfuls of flowers.

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How humiliating my life is.

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When I am not given a role, I feel like a pianist whose hands have been cut off.

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The critics are Amazons in menopause.

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Someone remarked: "Nobody wants to listen, everyone wants to talk." Is it worth talking about?

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When I wake up in the morning and feel that nothing hurts me - I think I’m already dead!

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Who would know my loneliness? Damn him, this very talent that made me unhappy. But the audience really does love? What's the matter? Why is it so hard in the theater? In the cinema, too, Gangsters.

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When Ranevskaya was asked why she did not attend Zavadsky's talks about the profession of an actor, Faina Georgievna answered:

“I don’t like mass in a mess.

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Someone said, I think Stendhal: "If a person has a heart, he does not want his life to be conspicuous." And this decided the fate of the book. When she covered the floor of my room, the sheets of paper were scattered with the reverse side, that is, white, and it looked like they were dead birds. "Memories" is an involuntary gossip.

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Where the damn money goes, you can't tell me? They scatter like cockroaches with monstrous speed.

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Lesbianism, homosexuality, masochism, sadism are not perversions. In fact, there are only two perversions: field hockey and ice ballet.

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I love music - Bach, Gluck, Handel, Beethoven, Mozart. I love Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Khachaturian - as he guessed Lermontov in "Masquerade".

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Who, besides my Pavla Leontyevna, wanted me well in the theater? Who suffered when I was out of work? Nobody needed me. Okhlopkov, Zavadsky, Alexander Dmitrievich Popov were condescending, Zavadsky hated. I ran from theater to theater, looked for, did not find. And it's all. Personal life also did not take place. ... In the theater Zavadsky rotting alive.

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I am amused by the excitement of people over trifles - she herself was the same fool. Now, before the finish line, I understand clearly that everything is empty. All that is needed is kindness, compassion.

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A painful tenderness for animals, pity for them, I suffer at night, this is no longer for people. Old women, old people only feel sorry for, no one needs.

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I came across people who did not love Chekhov, but these were people who did not love anyone but themselves.

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My life: loneliness, loneliness, loneliness until the end of days.

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Thoughts are drawn to the beginning of life - it means that life is coming to an end.

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... I guess I am a pure Christian. I forgive not only my enemies, but also my friends.

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Nothing can hold back the pressure of beauty! (Looking at the rip in her skirt.)

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You can't learn to be an artist. You can develop your talent, learn to speak, express yourself, but shaking is not. To do this, you have to be born with the nature of the actor.

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My favorite disease is scabies: I scratched myself and still want to. And the most hated is hemorrhoids: neither to look at it, nor to show it to people.

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Our people are the most gifted, kind and conscientious. But almost somehow it turns out that constantly, by 80 percent, we are surrounded by idiots, scammers and creepy ladies without dogs. Trouble!

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We were accustomed to single-celled words, scanty thoughts - play after that Ostrovsky!

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Recently I read in the newspaper: "The great actress Ranevskaya." It became funny. Great people live like people, and I live as a stray dog, although there is a dwelling! There is a stray dog, she lives by my care, - I live as a lonely dog, and, thank God, there is not long left. Who would have known how unhappy I was in this damned life, with all my talents. Who would have known my loneliness! Success is stupid for me, smart one, to rejoice at it.

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Bad manners in maturity indicate the absence of a heart.

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Nothing but despair from the impossibility of changing anything in my destiny.

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There is no sickness more painful than melancholy.

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Nothing makes you understand and feel your loneliness like when there is no one to tell your dream.

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- Nonna, and what, the artist N. died?

- That's what I see, he is in the coffin ...

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Everything hurts at night, and most of all - conscience.

* * *

Well, I come across faces, not faces, but a personal insult! I enter the theater like a garbage chute: false, cruelty, hypocrisy. Not a single honest word, not a single honest eye! Careerism, meanness, greedy old women.

* * *

- Well, Faina Georgievna, why didn't you like the ending of my last play?

- It is too far from the beginning.

* * *

Loneliness as a condition is not treatable.

* * *

Loneliness is a condition that there is no one to tell about.

* * *

Once a young man called her, saying that he was working on a diploma about Pushkin. On this topic, Ranevskaya was always ready to speak. He began to come almost every day. He came with an empty briefcase, and left with a heavy one - he took out half of the library. She knew about it. "And you didn't react in any way?" - "Why? I avenged him terribly! " - "How?" - “When he came to me again, I said in my voice to the intercom:“ Ranevskaya is not at home ”.

* * *

(About the time when they began to issue passports.) “You could name any date - no one demanded metrics. Lyubochka (L. Orlova) knocked off a dozen years for herself, but I, an idiot, only a year or two - I don't remember. I thought that I had spent so much in the resorts, and resorts, as you know, do not count! "

* * *

Once the beginning of the dress rehearsal was postponed first for an hour, then for another 15 minutes. They were waiting for the representative of the district committee - a lady of very middle age, an honored worker of culture. Ranevskaya, who had not left the stage all this time, in the strongest irritation asked into the microphone:

- Has anyone seen our ZasRaKu ?!

* * *

He will die from expanding fantasy. (About director Y. Zavadsky.)

* * *

Optimism is a lack of information.

* * *

About roses: “Look what greatness! You cannot tear yourself away from them, not think about them. They grow old, dissolving before our eyes. The first person to compare a woman to a rose was a poet. And the second one is vulgar. "

* * *

Spelling mistakes in writing are like a bug on a white blouse.

* * *

I reread Babel for the hundredth time and am more and more amazed at this murdered miracle.

* * *

It's hard to be a genius among boogers.

* * *

I really envy people who talk about themselves easily and even with pleasure. I didn't want it, didn't like it.

* * *

About the director: perpetum male.

* * *

About his works in the cinema: "The money is eaten, but the shame remains."

* * *

I understood what my misfortune is: I am, rather, a poet, a home-grown philosopher, a "household fool" - I don't get along with everyday life! I buy things to give them away. I wear old clothes, always unsuccessful. I'm a freak.

* * *

I stopped thinking about the audience and immediately lost my shame. Or maybe I literally “lost my shame” - I don’t know anything about myself.

* * *

- Oh, you know, Zavadsky has such grief!

- What grief?

- He died.

* * *

Pee-pee in a tram - everything he did in art.

* * *

The fan asks for Ranevskaya's home phone number. She:

- Honey, how do I know him? I never call myself.

* * *

“Before the great mind I bow my head, before the Great heart - my knees” - Goethe. And I'm at the same time with him. Ranevskaya.

* * *

Do you understand my shallow thought?

* * *

After another skirmish with the chief director of Mosfilm Ivan Pyriev, Ranevskaya said that it would be better for her to take antipyrin three times a day than agree to work together.

* * *

They brought a dog, old, with broken legs. She was treated by kind canine doctors. A dog is much kinder than a man and nobler. Now she is my biggest and, perhaps, the only joy. She watches over me, does not let anyone into the house. May God grant her health!

* * *

“Give to the one who asks” - the Gospel. And what does it mean to give to the non-asking? Even what you need yourself?

* * *

Who are we friends against, girls? (Looking into the room where the actresses were sitting and gossiping violently about someone.)

* * *

Damn nineteenth century, damn parenting: can't stand when men are sitting.

* * *

Birds swear like actresses over roles. I saw how the sparrow clearly spoke taunts to another, tiny and weak, and as a result poked him in the head with its beak. Everything is like people.

* * *

A child from the first grade of school should be taught the science of loneliness.

* * *

Two plays were sent for reading.

One was called "Vitaminchik", the other - "Where are the police looking?"

* * *

Ranevskaya wandered around the theaters. Theater critic Natalia Krymova asked:

- Why all this, Faina Georgievna?

- I was looking for ... - Ranevskaya answered.

- What were you looking for?

- Holy art.

- In the Tretyakov Gallery ...

* * *

A fairy tale is when he married a frog, and she turned out to be a princess. And reality is when it's the other way around.

* * *

Today I was at Shchepkina-Kupernik's, who talked about the proofreader who changed the phrase "... on a stone stood Mars and Venus" into "MARKS and Venus".

* * *

The worst thing is to offend, upset a person, hit a dog, not feed her hungry.

* * *

Today I met “first love”. Jabbering with false jaws, and what a delight it was ...

We are both ashamed of our old age.

* * *

Now, when a person is embarrassed to say that he does not want to die, he says this: he really wants to survive in order to see what will happen next. As if if not for that, he would immediately be ready to lie in the coffin.

* * *

It's scary when you are eighteen inside, when you admire the beautiful music, poetry, painting, and you have to go, you didn’t have time to do anything, but you are just starting to live!

* * *

Sclerosis cannot be cured, but you can forget about it.

* * *

Being in a bad movie is like spitting into eternity.

* * *

A neighbor, the widow of a Mossovet chief, changed Romanian furniture for Yugoslavian, Yugoslavian furniture for Finnish, was nervous. She supervised the movers ... And she died at the age of 50 on a furniture set. Girl!

* * *

The union of a stupid man and a stupid woman gives rise to a mother-heroine. The union of a stupid woman and an intelligent man gives rise to a single mother. The union of an intelligent woman and a stupid man creates an ordinary family. The union of an intelligent man and an intelligent woman gives rise to light flirting.

* * *

The strongest feeling is pity.

* * *

The old mug did not become my tragedy - at the age of 22 I was already making up an old woman and got used to it and fell in love with the old women in my roles. And recently she wrote to my peer: "Old women, I loved you, be careful!"

Knipper-Chekhova, a marvelous old woman, once said to me: "I began to stifle only in old age."

Old women are vipers, and by the end of their lives there are bitches, and gossips, and scoundrels ... Old women, according to my observations, often do not have the art of being old. And to old age it is necessary to do well from morning to evening!

* * *

Old age is when it is not bad dreams that disturb you, but bad reality.

* * *

Old age is just disgusting. I believe that this is the ignorance of God when he allows you to live to old age.

* * *

The companion of glory is loneliness.

* * *

I am trying to remember if I have met anthropoid in the cinema in 26 years? Perhaps only Chernyak, who died of decency.

* * *

Old age is a time when candles on a birthday cake are more expensive than the cake itself, and half of the urine is used for tests.

* * *

Strange - absolutely devoid of (shadow) religious, I love religious music to the point of passion. Handel, Gluck, Bach!

* * *

With rapture I would beat the muzzles of all the hacks, but I endure. I endure ignorance, I endure lies, I endure the miserable existence of a half-beggar, I endure and I will endure until the end of my days. I even tolerate Zavadsky.

* * *

The family replaces everything. Therefore, before starting it, you should think about what is more important to you: everything or family.

* * *

My friend has two colleagues: Venera Panteleevna Soldatova and Pravda Nikolaevna Sharkun.

And also: Aurora Cruiser.

* * *

Surprisingly, when I was 20 years old, I only thought about love. Now I only like to think.

* * *

“The autumn forest is not pitiful yet,

He is also thick and red, and scarlet ”- poems of a young poet from Tula (on the radio).

- Oh my God, what is it to me!

* * *

Tolstoy said that there is no death, but there is love and the memory of the heart. The memory of the heart is so painful, it would be better if it did not exist ... It would be better to kill the memory forever.

* * *

What the actor wants to tell about himself, he must play, and not write a memoir. I think so.

“What a writer wants to express, he should not say, but write” - E. Hemingway.

* * *

“You have the same flaw as me. No, not the nose - modesty! " - Faina Ranevskaya to Elena Kamburova.

* * *

- Madam, could you change a hundred dollars for me?

- Alas! But thanks for the compliment!

* * *

The clever one knows how to get out of a difficult situation, but the wise never gets into it.

* * *

I learned the horror of loneliness ... It's a big job to live in the world. And such a sadness, such a sadness ... I am lonely ...

On July 19, an outstanding actress Faina Ranevskaya died. Viewers remember her not only from wonderful films, but also from sparkling quotes. We recalled the most popular statements of Faina Ranevskaya.

About women and about love

"God made women beautiful so that men could love them, and stupid so they could love men."

Which women do you think tend to be more loyal as brunette or blonde? Without hesitation, she answered: "Gray-haired!"

“Women are, of course, smarter. Have you ever heard of a woman who would lose her head just because a man has beautiful legs? "

"Nothing can hold back the pressure of beauty!" (Looking at the rip in her skirt)

“- You will not believe, Faina Georgievna, but no one has kissed me yet, except the groom. "Are you boasting, dear, or are you complaining?"

“The only other half is in the brain, in the ass and in the pill. And I was intact from the very beginning. "

“A real man is a man who remembers a woman's birthday exactly and never knows how old she is. A man who never remembers a woman's birthday, but knows exactly how old she is, is her husband. "

"The Critics - Amazons in Menopause."

"Why are all fools such women?"

About health

To the question: "Are you sick, Faina Georgievna?" - She usually replied: "No, I just look like that."

"What I'm doing? I'm simulating health. "

"I feel, but bad."

"Health is when you have pain in another place every day."

"If the patient really wants to live, the doctors are powerless."

"Sclerosis cannot be cured, but you can forget about it."

About work

“I’m an opening for money, but shame will remain” - Ranevskaya's response to an offer to star in a film. ”

"Doing a bad movie is like spitting into eternity."

"When I am not given a role, I feel like a pianist whose hands have been cut off."

"I am Stanislavsky's miscarriage."

“I am a provincial actress. Wherever I served! Only in the city of Vezdesransk did not serve! .. "

"I, by virtue of the talent granted to me, squeaked like a mosquito."

"This is the fourth time I have watched this film and I must tell you that today the actors played like never before!"

"Success is the only unforgivable sin towards your loved one."

"How erroneous is the opinion that there are no irreplaceable actors."

I receive letters: "Help to become an actor." I answer: "God will help!"

"Pee-pee in a tram - everything he did in art."

“I don’t recognize the word“ play ”. You can play cards, at races, checkers. You have to live on the stage. "

About life

"The companion of glory is loneliness."

"You have to live so that you are remembered by the bastards."

"Life goes by and does not bow like an angry neighbor."

"Optimism is a lack of information."

About myself

“All my life I have been swimming in the toilet with a butterfly style.”

"I was smart enough to live my life stupidly."

“- Faina Georgievna, how are you? - You know, darling, what shit is? So it is, in comparison with my life - jam. "

"Damn nineteenth century, damn upbringing: I can't stand when men are sitting."

"I am like an old palm tree at the station - no one needs it, but it's a pity to throw it away."

"I spoke for a long time and unconvincingly, as if I were talking about the friendship of peoples."

"My funeral belongings" - said Faina Georgievna about her awards