Winged words of Faina Ranevskaya. Incomparable Faina Ranevskaya - Best Quotes
If in Ranevskaya’s time there had been the Internet and Facebook, then her statements would have received at least a million likes!
Faina Georgievna Ranevskaya is the most talented theater and film actress of the USSR. She can safely be called one of the greatest Russian actresses of the 20th century. For her services in cinema, journalists nicknamed her the “queen of the supporting cast.”
IN modern world Faina Ranevskaya is remembered not for her roles, but for her witty statements, most of which were scattered into quotes.
An amazing actress with a great sense of humor became famous thanks to her amazing performance in the silent film by Mikhail Romm “Pyshka” (1934). By the way, the familiar character Freken Bock from the cartoon “Carlson Is Back” (1970) was copied specifically from Faina Ranevskaya, she also voiced this “housekeeper.”
Let's remember her most cynical and caustic statements, which are considered classics. You've probably used her quote without even knowing who said it first.
Let's play around and remember the best swearing phrases of the legendary Faina Ranevskaya.
1. Annoying fans
Phrase: “PionErs, go to hell!”
Faina Georgievna was terribly annoyed when, seeing her on the street, passers-by (especially children) began shouting: “Mulya, don’t irritate me!” One day she was surrounded by a crowd of schoolchildren, joyfully chanting the famous phrase from “The Foundling.” Then Ranevskaya said in her hearts: “Pioneers, go to hell!”
A similar fate befell the Timurites, who showed up at the actress’s home with an offer to help with the housework. “Pioneers! Hold hands and go to hell!” - she rapped and slammed the door.
By the way, once even Brezhnev got it for his love for a joke about Mulya. He could not resist and repeated it, pinning the Order of Lenin to Ranevskaya’s chest, to which he received an angry rebuke: “Leonid Ilyich, either boys or hooligans call me that!” “Sorry, but I love you very much,” the Secretary General became embarrassed.
2. Against pathos
Phrase: “Under every peacock’s tail hides a chicken’s a**.”
This aphorism is perhaps the most famous among Ranevskaya’s statements: “Under the most beautiful peacock’s tail hides the most ordinary chicken a**. So, less pathos, gentlemen!”
Few people have been able to express their attitude towards life, towards colleagues and towards themselves so accurately. By the way, recently, during another Twitter scandal, this expression was addressed to TV presenter Ksenia Sobchak, who had previously used Ranevskaya’s aphorism about Pioneer Era to journalists. In general, with the help of Faina Georgievna’s exchange of apt phrases, a new round of loud quarrel between Sobchak and the paparazzi was avoided. At least for now.
3. About freedom of choice
Phrase: “Everyone is free to dispose of his own **poy as he wants”
In general, the obscene four-letter word was one of Faina Georgievna’s favorites. One day she answered a certain meticulous journalist: “I’m not shy about my mother. And in my vocabulary favorite word– “**pa”, not “excellent”.
Ranevskaya proved this at a party meeting in the theater, where one of the actors, suspected of homosexual relationships, was ardently branded for behavior unworthy of a Soviet arts worker. “Everyone is free to dispose of their a** as they wish,” said the artist. “That’s why I raise mine and fuck off!”
4. With criticism in life
Phrase: “Do you know, my dear, what shit is?... So, compared to my life, it’s like jam.”
This is how Ranevskaya summed it up. Until a very old age, she remained in demand in cinema and theater; the roles she created, including episodic ones, were quoted and loved by the Soviet audience. At the same time, her quarrelsome character led to the fact that Faina Georgievna lived completely alone - apart from her beloved mongrel named Boy and the Siamese cat Tiki.
Sound Boyans fast (to the sad date)
In 1976, a still quite vigorous Brezhnev, presenting the Order of Lenin to the national artist on the occasion of the round anniversary, could not resist and joked:
- And here comes our “Don’t make me nervous, Mulya”!
“Leonid Ilyich,” Ranevskaya indignantly added a grumpy note to her voice, “that’s what boys or hooligans call me!”
General Secretary looked down embarrassedly:
- But I love you so much...
“Each of us has our own Mulya,” Akhmatova consoled her.
- What kind of Mulya do you have? - asked Faina Georgievna.
“She clenched her hands under a dark veil,” Anna Andreevna grinned.
During the war, both were evacuated to Tashkent, and there they became very close friends. Ranevskaya followed the poetess for a long time with a notebook, writing down wise thoughts and scraps of future poems. And at one point, I mistakenly lit the potbelly stove with them.
“Madam, you are 11 years old and you will never be 12,” Akhmatova laughed for a long time.
Ranevskaya was 46, Akhmatova was 53.
The whole country loved her and even the leaders who replaced each other at the helm. The youngest daughter of Girsha Khaimovich Feldman, the owner of “factories, newspapers, ships,” was awarded the Stalin Prize three times and personally, puffing on his pipe, he once remarked:
- Here is Zharov in different makeup and different roles - the same everywhere, and Ranevskaya without makeup, but different everywhere.
In the early 50s, Faina Georgievna even moved into a separate apartment on Kotelnicheskaya. Directly below her window was the entrance to the cinema and bakery.
“I live above bread and circuses,” the Honored Artist of the RSFSR smiled.
There were almost no major roles in her life and no romances happened at all.
- Everyone who loved me didn’t like me. And those I loved, they didn’t love me,” Ranevskaya admitted. - My appearance has deprived me of my personal life!
The only one main role In the cinema, Faina Georgievna played in the film “Dream”, the premiere of which was at the beginning of the war, when there was no time for cinema.
Surprisingly, Frank Delano Roosevelt watched this film and concluded:
- One of the best films made on globe. Faina Ranevskaya is a brilliant tragic actress.
But there were few sad images: the ironic and caustic Faina Georgievna was invited mainly to comedic episodes, to enliven the screen space. But she chose even tiny roles:
“Starting in a bad film is like spitting into eternity,” the actress liked to repeat, “The money is eaten up, but the shame remains.”
At the age of 86, “tired of feigning health,” Ranevskaya left the theater: a piece of the era of great theater old men living out lost illusions on the Soviet stage. Over 50 years, she played only 17 roles on it. Their duet with Plyatt, in the not very strong play “Further – Silence,” was inimitable. It was here that on October 24, 1982, Faina Georgievna came out to bow for the last time. The farewell was quiet, without banquets or praises. I can’t help but remember the tragicomic:
- People, like candles, are divided into two types: some - for light and warmth, and others - in the ass...
77 golden quotes from Faina Ranevskaya
About women
When the Sistine Madonna was brought to Moscow, everyone went to see it. Faina Georgievna overheard a conversation between two officials from the Ministry of Culture. One claimed that the picture did not make an impression on him. Ranevskaya noted:
“This lady has been impressing such people for so many centuries that now she herself has the right to choose who she impresses and who she doesn’t!”
God created women beautiful so that men could love them, and stupid so that they could love men.
This type of ass is called a “playing ass.”
Which women do you think are more likely to be faithful, brunettes or blondes?”
Without hesitation, she answered: “Grey-haired!”
Women, of course, are 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 hole in her skirt)
Critiques are Amazons in menopause.
When a jumper's legs hurt, she jumps while sitting.
You should stay at home with such an ass!
About health
To the question: “Are you sick, Faina Georgievna?” - she usually answered: “No, I just look like that.”
What am I doing? I feign health.
I feel well, but not well.
Health is when you have pain in a different place every day.
If the patient really wants to live, doctors are powerless.
Sclerosis cannot be cured, but it can be forgotten.
About old age
Old age is when it is not bad dreams that bother you, but bad reality.
I’m like an old palm tree at a train station - no one needs it, but it’s a shame to throw it away.
Old age is just disgusting. I believe it is ignorance of God when he allows people to live to old age.
It’s scary when you’re eighteen inside, when you admire beautiful music, poetry, painting, but it’s time for you, you haven’t managed to do anything, you’re just starting to live!
My God, how life has slipped by, I have never even heard nightingales sing.
Thoughts are drawn to the beginning of life - which means life is coming to an end.
When I die, bury me and write on the monument: “Died of disgust.”
Growing old is boring, but it's the only way to live long.
Old age is a time when the candles on a birthday cake cost more than the cake itself, and half the urine goes for testing.
About work
The money is eaten up, but the shame remains. (About his work in cinema)
Starring in a bad movie is like spitting into eternity.
When I don't get a role, I feel like a pianist whose hands were cut off.
I am Stanislavsky's miscarriage.
I'm a provincial actress. Wherever I served! Only in the city of Vezdesransk she didn’t serve!..
I, by virtue of the talent given to me, squeaked like a mosquito.
I lived with many theaters, but never enjoyed it.
This is the fourth time I’ve 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 wrong it is to believe that there are no irreplaceable actors.
We have been accustomed to single-cell words, scant thoughts, play Ostrovsky after this!
I receive letters: “Help me become an actor.” I answer: “God will help!”
Perpetum male. (About director Yu. Zavadsky)
He will die from the expansion of his fantasy. (About director Yu. Zavadsky)
Pee-wee on the tram is all he did in art.
I don't recognize the word "play". You can play cards, horse races, checkers. You need to live on stage.
The pearls that I will wear in the first act must be real,” demands the capricious young actress.
“Everything will be real,” Ranevskaya reassures her. - That's it: pearls in the first act, and poison in the last.
About myself and life
I've been swimming in the toilet butterfly style my whole life.
I'm a social psychopath. Komsomol member with a paddle. You can touch me on the subway. It’s me standing there, half-bent over, in a bathing cap and copper panties, which all the October kids are trying to get into. I work in the subway as a sculpture. I was polished by so many paws that even the great prostitute Nana could envy me.
The companion of fame is loneliness.
You have to live in such a way that even the bastards remember you.
I was smart enough to live my life stupidly.
Who would know my loneliness? Damn him, this very talent that made me unhappy. But the audience really loves it? What's the matter? Why is it so hard in the theater? There are also Gangsters in the movies.
In Moscow, you can go out into the street dressed as God willing, and no one will pay attention. In Odessa, my cotton dresses cause widespread confusion - this is discussed in hairdressing salons, dental clinics, trams, and private homes. Everyone is upset by my monstrous “stinginess” - because no one believes in poverty.
Loneliness as a condition cannot be treated.
Damn nineteenth century, damned upbringing: I can’t stand when men are sitting.
Life goes by without bowing like an angry neighbor.
On various topics
Spelling errors in a letter are like a bug on a white blouse.
The fairy tale is when he married a frog, and she turned out to be a princess. But reality is when it’s the other way around.
I spoke for a long time and unconvincingly, as if I was talking about the friendship of peoples.
Family replaces everything. Therefore, before you get one, you should think about what is more important to you: everything or family.
Let this be a small gossip that must disappear between us.
I don't see faces, but personal insults.
To help us see how much we are overeating, our stomach is located on the same side as our eyes.
A real man is a man who remembers exactly a woman's birthday 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.
It has always been unclear to me - people are ashamed of poverty and not ashamed of wealth.
Is my shallow thought clear?
From the first grade of school, a child should be taught the science of loneliness.
Tolstoy said that there is no death, but there is love and 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.
You know, when I saw this bald guy on the armored car, I realized: big troubles awaited us. (About Lenin)
This is not a room. This is a real well. I feel like a bucket that's been dropped in there.
“You won’t believe it, Faina Georgievna, but no one has ever kissed me except the groom.”
- “Are you bragging, my dear, or are you complaining?”
Radio Committee employee N. constantly experienced drama because of her love relationship with a colleague whose name was Sima: either she cried because of another quarrel, then he abandoned her, then she had an abortion from him. Ranevskaya called her “HeraSima’s victim.”
Once Ranevskaya was asked: Why are beautiful women more successful than smart ones?
- This is obvious, because there are very few blind men, and stupid ones are a dime a dozen.
How many times does a woman blush in her life?
- Four times: on the wedding night, when she cheats on her husband for the first time, when she takes money for the first time, when she gives money for the first time.
And the man?
- Twice: the first time when the second cannot, the second when the first cannot.
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.
“It’s not witty,” one of the accompanying people remarks.
“It’s really not witty,” Ranevskaya sighs. - The point is that
I left all the tickets for the piano.
One day Yuri Zavadsky, artistic director of the Theater. Mossovet, where she worked
Faina Georgievna Ranevskaya (and with whom she had far from
cloudless relationship), shouted in the heat of the moment to the actress: “Faina Georgievna,
you devoured my entire directorial plan with your acting!" "That's what I have
I feel like I’ve eaten enough crap!” Ranevskaya retorted.
— Today I killed 5 flies: two males and three females.
- How did you determine this?
“Two were sitting on a beer bottle, and three were on a mirror,” explained Faina Georgievna.
Some man pushed Ranevskaya walking down the street and cursed her with dirty words. Faina Georgievna told him:
- For a number of reasons, I cannot now answer you in the words you use. But I sincerely hope that when you return home, your mother will jump out of the gateway and bite you properly.
The actors discuss at a troupe meeting a comrade who is accused of homosexuality:
“This is youth molestation, this is a crime.”
My God, an unfortunate country where a person cannot control his ass, Ranevskaya sighed.
“Lesbianism, homosexuality, masochism, sadism are not perversions,” Ranevskaya strictly explains: “Actually, there are only two perversions: field hockey and ice ballet.”
Explaining to someone why the condom is white, Ranevskaya said:
"Because white makes you look fat."
I don’t drink, I don’t smoke anymore, and I never cheated on my husband because I never had one, Ranevskaya said, anticipating the journalist’s possible questions.
So, if the journalist is keeping up, it means you have no shortcomings at all?
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- famous and popular Soviet theater and film actress.
Today, many critics and journalists consider her one of the greatest Russian actresses of the 20th century.
She has about 30 films and countless performances to her credit.
In 1992, the English encyclopedia "Who's Who" included her in the list of the ten most outstanding actresses of the 20th century.
But there is one more distinctive feature by which the actress is remembered by millions - these are the sayings, quotes and aphorisms of Ranevskaya. They instantly became winged and spread throughout the country and beyond.
And even many years after years, after she passed away, these words do not lose their relevance!
We present you the best phrases and quotes from Faina Ranevskaya. There are more than a hundred of them:
1. I don’t know how to express strong feelings, although I can express myself strongly.
2. Family replaces everything. Therefore, before you get one, you should think about what is more important to you: everything or family.
3. I noticed that if you don’t eat bread, sugar, fatty meat, don’t drink beer with fish
- the muzzle becomes smaller, but sadder.
4. My favorite disease is scabies: I scratched it and want more.
And the most hated thing is hemorrhoids: you can’t see it for yourself, you can’t show it to people.
5. Ladies, don't lose weight. Do you need it? It’s better to be a ruddy donut in old age than a dried-up monkey!
6. Loneliness is when there is a telephone in the house and the alarm clock rings.
7. All my life I have been swimming in the toilet butterfly style.
8. The soul is not an ass, it can’t take a shit.
9. In old age, the main thing is a sense of dignity, and I was deprived of it.
10. I was smart enough to live my life stupidly. I live only by myself - what self-restraint.
11. We have been accustomed to single-cell words, scant thoughts, play Ostrovsky after this!
12. A Russian person does not want to do or think anything on an empty stomach, but on a full stomach he cannot.
13. If the patient really wants to live, doctors are powerless.
14. It’s very hard to be a genius among boogers.
15. Horseradish, based on the opinions of others, ensures a calm and happy life.
16. 85 years with diabetes is not sugar.
17. I wish I had her legs - she had lovely legs! It's a shame - now they'll disappear.
18. The fairy tale is when he married a frog, and she turned out to be a princess. But reality is when it’s the other way around.
19. Tolstoy said that there is no death, but there is love and 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.
20. Let go of idiots and clowns from your life. The circus must tour.
21. The companion of glory is loneliness.
22. Growing old is boring, but it is the only way to live long.
23. Nothing but despair from the inability to change anything in my destiny.
24. Under the most beautiful peacock tail hides the most ordinary chicken ass. So less pathos, gentlemen.
25. I hate it when a whore pretends to be innocent!
26. Is my shallow thought clear?
27. You must live in such a way that even bastards remember you.
28. Who would know my loneliness? Damn him, this very talent that made me unhappy...
29. All my life I have been terribly afraid of stupid people. Especially women.
You never know how to talk to them without sinking to their level.
30. Understand once and for all that the character of your woman is a reflection of your attitude towards her.
For those who don’t understand: it’s not her who’s a bitch, it’s you who’s an asshole.
31. I’m like eggs: I participate, but I don’t enter.
32. I hate cynicism for its general availability.
33. Why are all women such fools?
34. Eating alone is as unnatural as shitting together!
35. So that we can see how much we overeat, our stomach is located on the same side as our eyes.
36. Talent is like a wart - either it is there or it is not.
37. What kind of world is this? There are so many idiots around, how much fun they make!
38. It has always been unclear to me - people are ashamed of poverty and not ashamed of wealth.
39. A woman, in order to succeed in life, must have two qualities.
She must be smart enough to please stupid men
and 40. stupid enough to please smart men.
41. If a woman tells a man that he is the smartest,
This means that she understands that she will not find another such fool.
42. God created women beautiful so that men could love them, and stupid so that they could love men.
43. Life passes without bowing, like an angry neighbor.
44. Pioneers, go to hell.
45. Many people complain about their appearance, but no one complains about their brains.
46. My life is terribly sad...
and you want me to stick a lilac bush in my ass and do a striptease in front of you!
47. God seems to love those who suffer. Have you ever seen a happy genius?
No, everyone was tossed about by life, like a blade of grass in the wind.
Happiness is a concept for average citizens in all respects, and there is no justice here.
48. Loneliness as a condition cannot be treated.
49. Animals, of which there are few, are included in the Red Book, and of which there are many - in the Book of Tasty and Healthy Food.
50. In my old head there are two, at most three, thoughts, but at times they make such a fuss that it seems like there are thousands of them.
51. You cannot learn to be an artist. You can develop your talent
learn to speak, express yourself, but not shock. To do this, you need to be born with the nature of an actor.
52. Do you know what it is to act in films?
Imagine that you are washing in a bathhouse, and they take you on a tour there.
53. Success is the only unforgivable sin towards your loved one.
54. Life is a long leap from the ass to the grave.
55. Starring in a bad movie is like spitting into eternity!
56. Darling, if you want to lose weight, eat naked and in front of a mirror.
57. There is such love that it is better to immediately replace it with execution.
58. For a number of reasons, I cannot now answer you in the words you use.
But I sincerely hope that when you return home,
your mother will jump out of the gateway and bite you properly.
59. I’m like an old palm tree at a train station - no one needs me, but it’s a shame to throw it away.
60. No one except dead leaders wants to tolerate my breasts dangling idly.
61. I spoke for a long time and unconvincingly, as if I was talking about the friendship of peoples.
62. Women are not the weaker sex, the weaker sex are rotten boards.
63. There are no disadvantages for an actress if it is necessary for the role.
64. If I often looked into the eyes of Gioconda,
I would go crazy: she knows everything about me, and I know nothing about her.
65. I can't eat meat. It walked, loved, looked... Maybe I'm a psychopath?
No, I consider myself a normal psychopath. But I can't eat meat. I keep meat for people.
66. The brain, the ass and the pill have a soul mate. And I was initially whole.
67. A child from the first grade of school should be taught the science of loneliness.
68. Loneliness is a state that you have no one to tell about.
70. Spelling errors in a letter are like a bug on a white blouse.
71. Sclerosis cannot be cured, but you can forget about it.
72. Thoughts are drawn to the beginning of life - which means life is coming to an end.
73. To gain recognition, one must, even must, die.
74. Lesbianism, homosexuality, masochism, sadism are not perversions.
Actually, there are only two perversions: field hockey and ice ballet.
75. Beautiful people shit too.
76. There are people whom you just want to approach and ask if it’s difficult to live without a brain.
77. Just now I looked at the photo for a long time - the dog’s eyes are surprisingly human.
I love them, they are smart and kind, but people make them evil.
78. My God, how old I am - I still remember decent people!
79. Women die later than men because they are always late.
80. I do not recognize the word “play”. You can play cards, horse races, checkers. You need to live on stage.
81. I'm tired of pretending to be healthy.
82. Do you know, my dear, what shit is? So it’s like jam compared to my life.
83. They haven’t told me for a long time that I’m a whore. I'm losing popularity.
84. Everything pleasant in this world is either harmful, immoral, or leads to obesity.
85. Life is too short to waste it on diets, greedy men and bad mood.
86. The main thing is to live a living life, and not rummage through the nooks and crannies of memory.
87. My God, an unfortunate country where a person cannot manage his ass.
88. Men are after boobs from the beginning of their days until their end.
89. I hate you. Wherever I go, everyone looks around and says:
“Look, it’s Mulya, don’t make me nervous, she’s coming.”
90. You can’t fart happily with a sad ass.
91. Everyone is free to dispose of their ass as they please. So I pick mine up and fuck off.
92. There are no fat women, only small clothes.
93. When I die, bury me and write on the monument: “Died of disgust.”
94. Either I’m getting old and stupid, or today’s youth are like nothing else!
Previously, I simply did not know how to answer their questions, but now I don’t even understand what they are asking.
95. I don’t get along with everyday life! Money bothers me both when it is not there and when it is there.
96. I receive letters: “Help me become an actor.” I answer: “God will help!”
97. Cinema is a tramp establishment.
98. How I envy the brainless!
99. Old age is the time when candles on a birthday cake cost more than the cake itself, and half of the urine goes for tests.
100. There are a million fans, but there is no one to go to the pharmacy.
101. There are people in whom God lives; there are people in whom the Devil lives;
and there are people in whom only worms live.
102. When a jumper’s legs hurt, she jumps while sitting.
103. Women, of course, are smarter. Have you ever heard of a woman
who would lose her head just because a man has beautiful legs?
104. Pee-wee on the tram - everything he did in art.
105. I feel, but not well.
106. Health is when you have pain in a different place every day.
108. Talent is self-doubt and painful dissatisfaction with oneself and one’s shortcomings,
which I have never seen in mediocrity.
109. I’m watching this film for the fourth time and I must tell you that today the actors played like never before.
110. I am a provincial actress. Wherever I served!
Only in the city of Vezdesransk she did not serve!
111. If you have a person to whom you can tell your dreams, you have no right to consider yourself lonely...
112. Damn nineteenth century, damned upbringing: I can’t stand when men are sitting.
113. Oh, these obnoxious journalists! Half the lies they spread about me are not true.
114. People are like candles: they either burn or fuck them.
115. Let this be a small gossip that must disappear between us.
116. He will die from the expansion of his fantasy.
117. I lived with many theaters, but never enjoyed it.
118. Life is a short walk before eternal sleep.
119. Old age is when it is not bad dreams that bother you, but bad reality.
120. Better to be good person, “swearing” than a quiet, well-mannered creature.
121. I’m already so old that I’ve begun to forget my own memoirs.
122. In the theater, talented people loved me, untalented people hated me, mongrels bit me and tore me to pieces.
123. March 8th is my personal disaster.
With every card with flowers and bows, I tear out a clump of hair from grief that I was not born a man.
124. Everything will come true, you just need to stop wanting...
125. Don’t have a hundred rubles, but have two breasts!
126. Old age is just disgusting. I believe this is God's ignorance,
when it allows you to live to old age. Lord, everyone has already left, but I still live.
Birman died too, and I never expected this from her.
It’s scary when you’re eighteen inside, when you admire beautiful music, poetry, painting,
but it’s time for you, you haven’t managed to do anything, but are just starting to live!
127. A person’s passport is his misfortune, because a person should always be eighteen, but a passport only reminds you that you can live like an eighteen-year-old.
128. The union of a stupid man and a stupid woman gives birth to a mother-heroine.
The union of a stupid woman and a smart man gives birth to a single mother.
The union of a smart woman and a stupid man gives rise to an ordinary family.
The union of a smart man and a smart woman gives rise to easy flirting.
Today exactly 30 years have passed since the death of the famous actress Faina Ranevskaya. Despite her outward deliberate rudeness, she was a person of fine spiritual organization, and her thoughts, expressed in vain, were striking in their wit and instantly diverged into quotes...
I've been swimming in the toilet butterfly style my whole life.
We have been accustomed to single-cell words, scant thoughts, play Ostrovsky after this!
Horseradish, based on the opinions of others, ensures a calm and happy life.
Under the most beautiful peacock tail hides the most ordinary chicken ass. So less pathos, gentlemen.
I'm like eggs: I participate, but I don't enter.
Why are all women such fools?
Do you know what it's like to act in a movie? Imagine that you are washing in a bathhouse, and they take you on a tour there.
Life is a long leap from the ass to the grave.
I’m like an old palm tree at a train station - no one needs it, but it’s a shame to throw it away.
There are no disadvantages for an actress if it is necessary for the role.
To gain recognition one must, even must, die.
Lesbianism, homosexuality, masochism, sadism are not perversions. Actually, there are only two perversions: field hockey and ice ballet.
Beautiful people shit too.
I don't recognize the word "play". You can play cards, horse races, checkers. You need to live on stage.
Everything pleasant in this world is either harmful, immoral, or leads to obesity.
I hate you. Wherever I go, everyone looks around and says: “Look, it’s Mulya, don’t make me nervous, she’s coming.”
Everyone is free to dispose of their ass as they please. So I pick mine up and fuck off. - I receive letters: “Help me become an actor.” I answer: “God will help!”
Women, of course, are smarter. Have you ever heard of a woman who would lose her head just because a man has beautiful legs?
Pee-wee on the tram is all he did in art.
Talent is self-doubt and painful dissatisfaction with oneself and one's shortcomings, which I have never encountered in mediocrity.
This is the fourth time I’ve watched this film and I must tell you that today the actors played like never before.
It’s better to be a good person who “swears” than a quiet, well-mannered creature.
Stories about the actress
Once Ranevskaya stood in her makeup room completely naked. And she smoked. Suddenly, the director and manager of the Mossovet Theater, Valentin Shkolnikov, entered her without knocking. And he froze in shock. Faina Georgievna calmly asked: “Aren’t you shocked that I smoke?”
Explaining to someone why the condom was white, Ranevskaya said: “Because white makes you look fat.” Ranevskaya was asked: “Which women, in your opinion, are inclined to be more faithful, brunettes or blondes?” Without hesitation, she answered: “Grey-haired!”
Once in 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 reassures her, “Everything: pearls in the first act, and poison in the last.” 
