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Quotes and Aphorisms 01.04.2017

Dear readers, today I invite you to an article with a special mood. On April Fool's Day, let's remember the quotes and aphorisms of Faina Ranevskaya. The aphorisms of this great mockingbird continue to excite, amaze, and catch in our days.

It seems that a whole era has passed (after all, Faina Ranevskaya has not been with us for more than 30 years), and this period was full of very significant historical events. Much has changed in the country, the changes are striking in the life of every family, every person. But it is worth flipping through these well-aimed phrases again, and you understand how little the person himself, his essence, psychology, mentality, attitude towards the world and others changes over time.

Strictly speaking, not all phraseological units attributed to Faina Georgievna are her own "invention". Those colleagues and few friends who had the good fortune to be in her house know that the actress had a habit of "catching" interesting phrases, proverbs, winged expressions of great people. She fixed them on pieces of paper and hung them in the rooms.

Of course, they were “recorded for a short time”, perhaps they were creatively transformed, edited for a specific situation and characters. And then, said to the point and in her characteristic unique manner, they acquired the status of Faina Ranevskaya's aphorisms. That does not detract from their dignity at all!

And it does not negate the fact that she herself constantly gave birth to such impromptu. In the life of the actress there were many difficulties, problems, sometimes tragic circumstances. She was really, fatally alone. And humor, sarcasm, self-irony became a saving armor from the imperfection of the world and human injustice, cruelty and cynicism.

I tried, probably, very conditionally, to break down the well-known best aphorisms of Ranevskaya Faina Georgievna into thematic sections. I suggest you, dear readers, go on an exciting journey through this unique world of wise and well-aimed sayings. I assure you, it will not be boring and very informative!

People are like candles!…

Those around her were amazed by her boundless kindness. How she got along with the "prickly" character was incomprehensible. She managed to quickly distribute her salary and pension, and then hardly make it to the next one. Paid the man who walked the dog, nurses for injections. She transferred a substantial amount to the Leningrad House of Stage Veterans.

It was fashionable to be friends with her, especially not burdensome. In her house there were also those to whom Faina Georgievna treated with sincere respect: Vladimir Vysotsky, Anna Akhmatova, Sergey Yursky and a number of other guests dear to her heart. She always loved to treat, give and not expect anything in return. She herself ate little and was generally extremely unpretentious. But very observant. Ranevskaya's quotes and aphorisms about people are evidence of this.

People, like candles, are divided into two types: one - for light and heat, and the other - in the ass ...

It is better to be a good person, cursing obscenities than a quiet, well-mannered creature.

If a person has done evil to you, give him candy. He is evil to you, you are candy to him. And so on until this creature develops diabetes.

Many complain about their appearance, and no one complains about their brains.

If you have a person to whom you can tell dreams, you have no right to consider yourself lonely ...

What is the world? How many idiots around, how fun they are!

There are people who just want to approach and ask if it is difficult to live without brains.

It has always been incomprehensible to me - people are ashamed of poverty and not ashamed of wealth.

People make their own problems, no one forces them to choose boring professions, marry the wrong people or buy uncomfortable shoes.

Under the most beautiful peacock tail there is always an ordinary chicken ass.

There are people in whom God lives; There are people in whom the devil lives; And there are people that live only worms.

Men and women are two poles of love

Faina Ranevskaya quotes and aphorisms about men and women sometimes gave out quite “salty”. However, on other topics, she could speak very undiplomatically. But it's sharp and precise. She herself experienced a very cruel disappointment in love in her early youth. And then she spoke quite sarcastically about her appearance and personal life. Of course, she fell in love, like any creative subtle nature. But she learned to successfully hide her true feelings behind a veil of irony. She watched other people's relations from the side, dropping linguistic masterpieces "in passing".

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

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

Women die later than men because they are always late...

There are no fat women, there are tight clothes.

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

The union of a stupid man and a stupid woman gives birth to the heroine mother. The union of a stupid woman and a smart man creates 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.

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!

Why are beautiful women more successful than smart ones?
- It's obvious - after all, there are very few blind men, and stupid men are a dime a dozen.

Why are all women so stupid?

Which women do you think are more faithful - brunettes or blondes?
- Grey-haired!

When a jumper has pain in her legs, she jumps while sitting.

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

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.

An employee of the Radio Committee N constantly experienced drama because of her love relationship with a colleague, whose name was Sima: she sobbed because of another quarrel, then he left her, then she had an abortion from him. Ranevskaya called her "the victim of HeraSima."

You won’t believe it, Faina Georgievna, but no one has kissed me yet, except for the groom.
Are you boasting, my dear, or are you complaining?

There is such love that it is better to immediately replace it with execution.

Medicine + diet = health? Is not a fact!

Among the aphorisms of Faina Ranevskaya, there are many cool statements about various aspects of medicine, health, she also went through diets, which were “in trend” even then. The health of the actress herself was rather weak. She was treated a lot, including in prestigious metropolitan clinics, from where she left with the following conviction: "The Kremlin hospital is a nightmare with all the amenities."

One of the actors calls Faina Georgievna, inquires about her health.
- My dear, - she complains, - such a nightmare! My head hurts, my teeth are to hell, my heart is tight, I cough terribly. Liver, kidneys, stomach - everything aches! My joints aches, I can hardly walk… Thank God that I am not a man, otherwise it would be a prostate gland!

Health is when you have pain in a different place every day.

I noticed that if you don’t eat bread, sugar, fatty meat, don’t drink beer with fish, the face becomes smaller, but sadder ...

Why don't you get plastic surgery?

What's the point! You will update the facade, but the sewerage system is still old!

Ladies, do not lose weight ... You need it ... It’s better to be a ruddy donut in old age than a dried monkey ...

So that we can see how much we overeat, our stomach is located on the same side as the eyes.

To stay thin, a woman needs to eat in front of a mirror and naked.
- Faina, - her old friend asked, - do you think medicine is making progress?
- And how. When I was young, I had to undress every time I went to the doctor, but now it’s enough to show my tongue.

Sclerosis cannot be cured, but it can be forgotten.

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

About life and loneliness

“Remember: for everything that you do unkind, you will have to pay with the same coin ... I don’t know who is watching this, but they are watching, and very carefully.” This is one of Ranevskaya's aphorisms, which cannot be called cheerful or witty. This is “simply” a wise observation of a person who has experienced a lot, felt it. She was offended, sometimes absolutely consciously. As it happens not only in the theatrical environment, but in creative teams, bullying is usually more sophisticated. She learned to withdraw from unpleasant people, but the inevitable consequence of this was deep loneliness.

You can't fart happily with a sad ass.

Horseradish, put on the opinions of others, provides a calm and happy life ...

Life is too short to waste it on diets, greedy men and bad moods.

Everything pleasant in this world is either harmful, or immoral, or leads to obesity.

Loneliness is when there is a telephone in the house, and the alarm clock rings.

On an empty stomach, a Russian person does not want to do anything and think, but on a full stomach, he cannot.

Life is a short walk before eternal sleep.

Loneliness is a state of which there is no one to tell.

And what nature does to man!

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

A fairy tale is when he married a frog, and she turned out to be a princess. And the reality is when the opposite is true.

Life passes and does not bow like an angry neighbor.

You have to live in such a way that even the bastards remember you.

(Explaining to someone why the condom is white)
- Because the white color makes you fat.

Lesbianism, homosexuality, masochism, sadism are not perversions. There are, in fact, only two perversions: field hockey and ballet on ice.

Companion of glory - loneliness.

Loneliness is a condition that cannot be cured.

This is a slow but progressive transformation of the head into an ass. First in form, then in content.

Dreams come true… One has only to lose desire.

About theater and cinema: Stanislavsky's miscarriage

Biographers of Ranevskaya tell how she first appeared on the threshold of one of the theaters near Moscow. It was 1915, Faya managed to try herself in a number of theater projects in southern Russia. She came to the director of the theater with a letter of recommendation from a friend of the director, Moscow entrepreneur Sokolovsky.

“Dear Vanyusha,” a colleague wrote, “I am sending you this lady just to get rid of her. You yourself somehow delicately, with a hint, in parentheses, explain to her that she has nothing to do on stage, that she has no prospects. I myself, really, am uncomfortable doing this for a number of reasons, so you, my friend, somehow dissuade her from an acting career - it will be better for her and for the theater. This is a complete mediocrity, she plays all the roles in exactly the same way, her last name is Ranevskaya ... "

Fortunately, the addressee did not heed the entrepreneur's recommendations. And the world recognized one of the greatest actresses of the 20th century. In addition, we can now read the aphorisms and quotes of Faina Ranevskaya. True, in the theater for half a century she played only 17 roles, plus she embodied about the same number of film images.

I am Stanislavsky's miscarriage.

Criticesses are Amazons in menopause.

Once, on the southern sea, Ranevskaya pointed with her hand at a flying seagull and said:
- The Moscow Art Theater flew.

Success is the only unforgivable sin in relation to your loved one.

Making a bad movie is like spitting into eternity.

They say that this performance is not successful with the audience?
- Well, that's putting it mildly. I called the ticket office yesterday and asked when the performance started.
- So what?
- They answered me: “And when will it be convenient for you?”

I am watching this film for the fourth time and I must tell you that today the actors played like never before!

I lived with many theaters, but never enjoyed it.

I do not recognize the word "play". You can play cards, horse races, checkers. You have to live on the stage.

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

How wrong is the notion that there are no irreplaceable actors.

About colleagues: everything will be real!

Sergei Yursky said that after filming in Cinderella, as Faina Georgievna, she received an “indecently large” fee. She was really ashamed of this substantial amount, she began to ask her colleagues in the theater who needed what, and rather quickly spent this money. And only when she handed everything out, she came to her senses: she herself had nothing to buy a piece of fabric that she planned to purchase. Nevertheless, behind her back they slandered, and even in her face they taunted about her appearance and "unbearable" character. It was against this background that Ranevskaya's funny aphorisms about colleagues appeared.

(About director Y. Zavadsky) He will die from the expansion of fantasy.

(About director Y. Zavadsky) Perpetum male.

(Dialogue with Zavadsky)
- Faina Georgievna, you gobbled up all my director's idea with your acting!
- I feel like I've eaten shit!

I can't stand Mass in a brothel, - she said about the performances of the chief director in front of the troupe. - Do you know what Zavadsky dreams about? That he died and was buried in the Kremlin wall!

I am very sorry, Faina Georgievna, that you were not at the premiere of my new play, ”Victor Rozov Ranevskoy boasted. - The people at the box office staged a uniform massacre!
- And How? Did they get their money back?

The pearls that I will wear in the first act must be real, the capricious young actress demands.
“Everything will be real,” Ranevskaya reassures her. - Everything: pearls in the first act, and poison in the last.

About me: I'm like an old palm tree at the station

Each of us has our own Mulya, - Anna Akhmatova, one of her really close friends, consoled her.
- And what Mulya do you have? Faina Georgievna asked.
- “She squeezed her hands under a dark veil,” Anna Andreevna grinned.

They became friends during the war, in the evacuation in Tashkent. Then the poetess recalled: Ranevskaya constantly followed her with a notebook, wrote down thoughts and lines of future poems that Akhmatova “dropped”. And then, out of absent-mindedness, she melted the potbelly stove with them.
- Madam, you are 11 years old and will never be 12 - Akhmatova laughed. At that time, Ranevskaya was 46, and wash Akhmatova - 53.

Faina Georgievna, unlike many other wits, has always been very self-critical. Therefore, among the best aphorisms of Ranevskaya are her statements about herself.

Only the pill, the brain and the ass have a second half. I am completely whole!!!

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

Damned nineteenth century, damned upbringing: I can't stand when men are sitting.

Everyone who loved me didn't like me. And whom I loved - they did not love me. My appearance has robbed me of my privacy!

Who would know my loneliness? Damn him, this same talent that made me unhappy.

There are two, maybe three thoughts in my old head, but at times they raise such a fuss that it seems there are thousands of them.

I was smart enough to live my life stupidly.

For a long time they didn’t tell me that I’m a whore. Losing popularity.

All my life I've been terribly afraid of stupid people. Especially grandma. You never know how to talk to them without going down to their level.

This is not a room. This is a real well. I feel like a bucket that was dropped there.

I, like eggs, participate, but do not enter.

All my life I've been swimming in the toilet with a butterfly stroke.

Do you know what shit is, honey? So here it is in comparison with my life JAM!

I don't see faces, but personal insults.

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

(Looking at the hole in her skirt) Nothing can stop the pressure of beauty!

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

Think and say what you will about me. Where have you seen a cat who would be interested in what the mice say about her?

What I do? I pretend to be healthy.

When I was 20 years old, I only thought about love. Now I just like to think.

I feel myself, but not well.

Are you ill, Faina Georgievna?
- No, I just look like that.

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

My God, how life slipped by, I never even heard the nightingales sing.

It’s scary when you’re eighteen inside, when you admire beautiful music, poetry, painting, and it’s time for you, you haven’t done anything, but you’re just starting to live!

Old age and small pleasures

Faina Ranevskaya, whose quotes and aphorisms we recall today, has always loved animals. They brightened up her lonely existence. Mongrel named Boy, she hired nannies, fed with delicacies. She used to say, "My dog lives like Sarah Bernhardt, and I live like a dog."

Old age is the time when candles on a birthday cake cost more than the cake itself, and half of the urine goes to tests.

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

Getting old is boring, but it's the only way to live long.

I still remember decent people... God, how old I am!

Memories are the treasures of old age.

Old age is when it’s not bad dreams that bother you, but bad reality.

Situations and dialogues

Faina Ranevskaya gave birth to quotes and aphorisms on the go. Sometimes she could quite sharply “shave off” the boor, and sometimes she invented elegant formulations. Rather, not for offenders who are unlikely to appreciate this verbal balance, but for more advanced colleagues.

Ranevskaya was walking down the street, some man pushed her. The ignoramus had the “wit” to also scold the elderly woman with dirty words. Faina Georgievna reacted outwardly imperturbably:
- For a number of reasons, I cannot now answer you with 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.

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.

Somehow she slipped and fell on the street. A man walked towards the actress.
- Pick me up! she asked. - Folk artists on the road do not roll ...

After the performance, the artists were taken home by a crowded bus. Suddenly, an obscene sound was heard in the crowd. Ranevskaya leaned over to her neighbor's ear and in a whisper, but so that everyone could hear, issued:
- Feel, my dear? Someone got a second wind!

Ranevskaya with all her family and huge luggage arrives at the station.
- It's a pity that we didn't take the piano, - says Faina Georgievna.
“Not witty,” one of the escorts remarks.
- Really not witty, - Ranevskaya sighs. - The fact is that I left all the tickets on the piano.

(To the administrator who found her completely naked in the dressing room)
- Doesn't it shock you that I smoke?

I love nature.
"And this after what she did to you?"

The bell does not work, when you come, knock with your feet.
- Why feet?
- But you're not going to come empty-handed!

Memory of the heart

Faina Georgievna was unpretentious in everyday life. She didn't have a car or a cottage. Few people know that she was fond of painting. She gave away her paintings to colleagues, which were quite talentedly written.

Finally, let me remind you of a few more aphorisms by Faina Ranevskaya on various topics, which were recorded by the guests of her hospitable home.

(About Lenin) You know, when I saw this bald man on an armored car, I realized that we were in big trouble.

Do you understand my shallow thought?

Let it be a little gossip that should disappear between us.

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 happens next. As if if it were not for this, he would immediately be ready to lie down in the coffin.

Animals, which are few, were listed in the Red Book, and which are many - in the Book of Tasty and Healthy Food.

It's very hard to be a genius among goats.

I hate cynicism for its general availability.

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.

Talent is self-doubt and painful dissatisfaction with yourself and your shortcomings, which I have never seen in mediocrity.

Dear friends! The memory of the heart is indeed not always cloudless. But she leaves us both joyful and anxious moments of our life, everything that is dear and that actually makes up this life. Today we have touched an inexhaustible source - one of the facets of Faina Georgievna Ranevskaya's talent. Something remained outside the scope of this material, but we remembered a lot, experienced together with you. I hope this communication was bright and useful.

I thank the reader of my blog Lyubov Mironova for her help in preparing the material for this article.

The photographs of the famous Soviet photographer Dmitry Baltermants are used as illustrations for the article. He worked for many years in the Ogonyok magazine, for almost half a century the country looked at the world through his eyes. For many years, Baltermants was considered the main Soviet photographer, who during his lifetime received recognition from his colleagues abroad. Thanks to Anna Blintsova, blog designer, for a wonderful job.

And for the soul and mood, I suggest watching more video material with the best quotes and aphorisms by Faina Ranevskaya.

Quotes and aphorisms of Faina Ranevskaya

And statements by Faina Ranevskaya far from always distinguished by delicacy or accuracy in the selection of images or expressions. But what exactly you can be sure of is the absolute accuracy of Ranevskaya's statements. Most of them always hit right on target.

We offer you a wonderful selection of selected quotes and aphorisms from one of the most famous women of the twentieth century.

Ranevskaya's statements about women

When the Sistine Madonna was brought to Moscow, everyone went to look at it. Faina Georgievna heard a conversation between two officials from the Ministry of Culture. One claimed that the picture did not impress him. Ranevskaya remarked:
- This lady for so many centuries on such people made the impression that now she herself has the right to choose whom she impresses and who not!

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

Such an ass is called "ass-playing".

Which women do you think tend to be more fidelity brunette or blonde?
Without hesitation, she replied: Grey-haired.

Kritikess - Amazons in menopause.

When a jumper has pain in her legs, she jumps while sitting.

With such an ass, you should stay at home!

Do not have a hundred rubles, but have two breasts!

Ranevskaya's statements about health

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

What I do? I pretend to be healthy.

I feel myself, but not well.

My favorite disease, - said Ranevskaya, - scabies: it scratched and I still want to. And the most hated is hemorrhoids: neither to see for yourself, nor to show people.

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.

Ranevskaya's statements about old age

Old age is when it's not bad dreams that bother you, but bad reality.

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

It’s scary when you’re eighteen inside, when you admire beautiful music, poetry, painting, and it’s time for you, you haven’t done anything, but you’re just starting to live!

My God, how life slipped by, I never even heard the nightingales sing.

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

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

Getting old is boring, but it's the only way to live long.

Old age is the time when candles on a birthday cake cost more than the cake itself, and half of the urine goes to tests.

Ranevskaya's statements about work

The money is eaten, but the shame remains. (About his work in cinema)

Making a bad movie is like spitting into eternity.

When they don't give me a role, I feel like a pianist whose hands have been cut off.

I am Stanislavsky's miscarriage.

I am a local actress. Where I just did not serve! Only in the city of Vezdesransk did not serve!

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

I lived with many theaters, but never enjoyed it.

I am watching this film for the fourth time and I must tell you that today the actors played like never before!

Success is the only unforgivable sin in relation to your loved one.

How wrong is the notion that there are no irreplaceable actors.

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

I get letters: "Help me become an actor." I answer: "God will help!"

Perpetum male. (About director Y. Zavadsky)

He will die from the expansion of fantasy. (About director Y. Zavadsky)

Pee-pee in a tram is all he did in art.

I do not recognize the word "play". You can play cards, horse races, checkers. You have to live on the stage.

The pearls that I will wear in the first act must be real, the capricious young actress demands.
Everything will be real, - Ranevskaya reassures her - Everything: pearls in the first act, and poison in the last.

Ranevskaya's statements about herself and life

All my life I've been swimming in the toilet with a butterfly stroke.

Companion of glory - 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 same talent that made me unhappy. But do the audience really love it? What's the matter? Why is it so hard in the theater? In the movies, too, Gangsters.

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

Loneliness is a condition that cannot be cured.

Damned nineteenth century, damned upbringing: I can't stand when men are sitting.

Life passes and does not bow like an angry neighbor.

Ranevskaya's statements on various topics

Spelling errors in a letter are like bed bugs on a white blouse.

Beautiful people shit too.

A fairy tale is when he married a frog, and she turned out to be a princess. A true story is when the opposite is true.

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

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

Optimism is a lack of information.

Let it be a little gossip that should disappear between us.

I don't see faces, but personal insults.

So that we can see how much we overeat, our stomach is located on the same side as the eyes.

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.

It has always been incomprehensible to me - people are ashamed of poverty and not ashamed of wealth.

Do you understand my shallow thought?

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

You know, when I saw this bald man on an armored car, I realized that we were in big trouble. (About Lenin)

This is not a room. This is a real well. I feel like a bucket that was dropped there.

"You won't believe it, Faina Georgievna, but no one has kissed me yet, except for the groom."
- "Are you boasting, my dear, or are you complaining?"

An employee of the Radio Committee N constantly experienced drama because of her love relationship with a colleague, whose name was Sima: either she sobbed because of another quarrel, then he left 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?
- It's obvious because there are very few blind men, and stupid men 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.

Once Yuri Zavadsky, artistic director of the Theater. Moscow City Council, where she worked
Faina Georgievna Ranevskaya (and with whom she had far from
cloudless relationship), shouted in the heat of the actress: "Faina Georgievna,
you gobbled up my whole directorial idea with your game! "" That's what I have
the feeling that I ate shit!" Ranevskaya retorted.

Today I killed 5 flies: two males and three females.
- How did you define it?
- Two were sitting on a beer bottle, and three on a mirror, - Faina Georgievna explained.

Some man pushed Ranevskaya walking down the street, 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 return home, your mother will jump out of the gateway and bite you properly.

I don’t drink, I don’t smoke anymore and I never cheated on my husband because I never had one, ”Ranevskaya said, anticipating possible questions from the journalist.
- So, the journalist does not lag behind, so you don’t have any 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!

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Her famous humor - caustic, very precise and almost always cynical - has long been considered a classic. We use her expressions without even suspecting who owns the "copyright" on them.

1. Annoying fans

Phrase: "Pioneera, go to ** pu!"

Faina Georgievna was terribly annoyed when, seeing her on the street, passers-by (especially children) began to shout: “Mulya, don’t make me nervous!” One day, a crowd of schoolchildren surrounded her, joyfully chanting the famous phrase from "The Foundling." Then Ranevskaya said in her hearts: “Pioneers, go to ** ny!”

A similar fate befell the Timurovites, who came home to the actress with an offer to help with the housework. "PionEra! Join hands - and go to ** poo! she said and slammed the door.

By the way, once for the love of a joke about Mulya, even Brezhnev got it. He could not resist and repeated it, pinning the Order of Lenin to Ranevskaya’s chest, to which he received an angry retort: “Leonid Ilyich, that’s what boys or hooligans call me!” “Forgive me, but I love you very much,” the Secretary General was embarrassed.

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2. Against pathos

Phrase: "Under every peacock's tail lies a chicken ** pa"

This aphorism is perhaps the most famous among Ranevskaya's statements: “Under the most beautiful peacock tail lies the most ordinary chicken ** pa. So less pathos, gentlemen!"

Very few people managed to express their attitude to life, to colleagues and to 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 pionEras to journalists. In general, with the help of the exchange of well-aimed phrases by Faina Georgievna, a new round of Sobchak's loud quarrel with the paparazzi was avoided. At least for now.
3. About freedom of choice

Phrase: "Everyone is free to dispose of his ** sing as he wants"

In general, the obscene word of four letters was one of Faina Georgievna's favorites. Once she answered this to a certain meticulous journalist: “I am not shy about Mata. And in my vocabulary, my favorite word is “** pa”, and 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 unworthy behavior of a Soviet art worker. “Everyone is free to dispose of his ** sing as he wants,” said the artist. “So I pick mine up and fuck off!”
4. With criticism in life

The phrase: “Do you know, my dear, what shit is? ... So, compared to my life, it is jam.”

So summed up Ranevskaya. 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, the quarrelsome character led to the fact that Faina Georgievna lived in complete solitude - not counting her beloved mongrel named Boy and the Siamese cat Tiki.

5. Sisters in mind

Phrase: "Why are all women such fools?"

The answer to this question can be found in the book of the same name. Its authorship is attributed to Ranevskaya, but this still raises fair doubts among many. Although, knowing the mocking disposition of Faina Georgievna, it would be quite logical to assume that the catchphrase belongs to her.

The sharp-tongued actress did not spare anyone, and the fair sex - including: “All my life I have been terribly afraid of stupid people. Especially grandma. You never know how to talk to them without sinking to their level.”
6. About shapes...

Phrase: “With this ** sing, you have to stay at home!”

Speaking of the criticism that Ranevskaya brought down on her compatriots. Faina Georgievna rarely hesitated to openly discuss someone's appearance - even her own, even passers-by.

Once, watching a lady passing by, the actress - either caustically or approvingly - said: “This is called“ ** pa-playing ”.

But another passerby got from Ranevskaya in full. “And with such a ** sing it was necessary to stay at home!” - sharply threw the actress.
7. ... and content

Phrase: "If you only knew how much shit there is in a person!"

Once, during the filming of the next film outside the city, Ranevskaya suffered a serious stomach upset.

Tired of the long wait, the members of the film crew already suspected that something irreparable had happened when the door of the wooden toilet flung open and Faina Georgievna came out. "You are my brothers! – said the actress. “If you only knew how much shit a person has…”
8. Your take on official art

Phrase: "It's some kind of refrigerator with a beard!"

In the 60s of the last century, a monument to Karl Marx was erected on Theater Square in Moscow. Obviously, Ranevskaya did not like the proximity of the bronze figure to the Bolshoi Theater.

When the actress was asked if she had seen the monument to the great author of Capital, she raised her eyebrows in surprise and clarified: “Do you mean this refrigerator with a beard that was recently placed at the Bolshoi Theater?”
9. In any awkward situation

Phrase: “Does it shock you that I smoke?”

Once, one of the theater employees ran into Ranevskaya's dressing room on some super-important matter. What he saw there made the hurried man literally lose the power of speech: Faina Georgievna was smoking by the window completely naked. “My dear, is it not shocking that I smoke?” - innocently asked the actress, turning to the intruder and not making the slightest attempt to hide behind.
10. Delicate but far

Phrase: "I hope your mother bites you in the alley"

The bawdy expressions of Ranevskaya, of course, were not an indicator of a lack of culture. On the contrary, they were a challenge to inertia, one might say, a small performance on her part. And when Faina Georgievna encountered rudeness on the street, she knew how to keep her face and choose her words.

Once, on one of the Moscow streets, an already middle-aged actress was pushed by a certain young man. Almost knocking Ranevskaya down, he not only did not apologize, but also cursed obscenely at her.

At first, the artist was taken aback, but soon she quickly found herself and threw after the rude man: “For a number of reasons, I cannot now answer you with 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.

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Quotes

All my life I've been swimming in the toilet with a butterfly stroke.
We were accustomed to single-celled words, scant thoughts, play Ostrovsky after that!
Horseradish, put on the opinions of others, provides a calm and happy life.
Under the most beautiful tail of a peacock hides the most ordinary chicken ass. So less pathos, gentlemen.
I am like eggs: I participate, but I do not enter.
Why are all women so stupid?
Do you know what it's like to act in films? Imagine that you are washing in a bathhouse, and a tour is being led there.
Life is a long jump from n * zdy 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.
For an actress, there are no disadvantages if it is necessary for the role.
When I start writing memoirs, beyond the phrase: “I was born in the family of a poor oilman ...”, - I can’t do anything.
To gain recognition, one must, even must, die.
Lesbianism, homosexuality, masochism, sadism are not perversions. There are, in fact, only two perversions: field hockey and ballet on ice.
Beautiful people shit too.
I do not recognize the word "play". You can play cards, horse races, checkers. You have to live on the stage.
Everything pleasant in this world is either harmful, or immoral, or leads to obesity.
I hate you. Wherever I go, everyone looks around and says: “Look, this is Mulya, don’t annoy me, she’s coming.”
Everyone is free to dispose of his ass as he wants. So I pick mine up and fuck it
I get letters: "Help me become an actor." I answer: "God will help!".
Women are smarter, of course. Have you ever heard of a woman who would lose her head just because a man has beautiful legs?
Pee-pee in a tram is all he did in art.
Talent is self-doubt and painful dissatisfaction with yourself and your shortcomings, which I have never seen in mediocrity.
I am watching this film for the fourth time 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.

Actress stories

Once Ranevskaya stood in her make-up room completely naked. And smoked. Suddenly, without knocking, the director, manager of the Mossovet Theater Valentin Shkolnikov entered her. And froze in shock. Faina Georgievna calmly asked: “Does it shock you that I smoke?”

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

Ranevskaya was asked: “Which women, in your opinion, tend to be more faithful brunettes or blondes?” Without thinking, she replied: "Greys!".

Once in the theater, a young capricious actress declared: "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”.

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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.

* * *

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

* * *

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

* * *

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

* * *

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

* * *

I saw infamy: "Uncle Vanya" - a film. Everything seems to be inside out. It's useless. Insolently, vilely, they made Chekhov the most boring bore, they play vilely.

* * *

During the rehearsal, Zavadsky was offended by the actors for something, could not restrain himself, shouted and ran out of the rehearsal room, slamming the door, shouting: “I’ll go and hang myself!” Everyone was crushed. Ranevskaya's calm voice rang out in the silence: “Yuri Alexandrovich will be right back. At this time, he goes to the toilet.

* * *

Everyone who loved me didn't like me. And whom I loved - they did not love me.

* * *

The theater has an unprecedented power mess, it’s even a shame to appear in it in old age. I don’t go to the city, but I lie more and think about what shameful things I can do. I meet with my colleagues out of necessity to “create” with them, they are all disgusting to me with their cynicism, which I hate for its general availability ...

* * *

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.

* * *

In the theater, the talented loved me, the mediocre hated me, the mongrels bit me and tore me to pieces.

* * *

Memories are the wealth of old age.

* * *

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

* * *

You have no idea how tiresome my acting popularity is. For example, by the New Year there are up to a thousand greetings - I sit like a convict, I write kind answers ... Old, in order to rejoice in everything vain ...

* * *

The family is not without a director.

* * *

"Stupidity is a kind of madness" - this is my usual thought in a bad translation. My God, how many “madmen” are around!

* * *

The girl married a Jew. Friends ask:

- Well, how?

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

* * *

Delyags, adventurers and all sorts of petty crooks of the pen! They trade the soul like buttons.

* * *

It has always been a mystery to me how great actors could play with an actor who has nothing to take, nothing to catch, even a runny nose! How to explain mediocrity: no one will come to you, because there is nothing to take from you. I'm 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. An actor must live.

* * *

“He did not know my soul, because he loved it.” (Tolstoy.)

* * *

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

* * *

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

* * *

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

* * *

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

* * *

If you have insomnia, count to three. And if it does not help - until half past four.

* * *

To love a friend is not to spare oneself.

* * *

There are fools who envy fame.

* * *

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

* * *

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

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

* * *

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."

* * *

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

* * *

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

* * *

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

* * *

Life is a short walk before eternal sleep.

* * *

You have to live in such a way that even the bastards remember you.

* * *

Animals, which are few, were listed in the Red Book, and which are many - in the Book of Tasty and Healthy Food.

* * *

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

* * *

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

* * *

Sometimes something not stupid comes to mind, but I immediately forget this not stupid. Clever has not visited my brains for a long time.

* * *

You know, when I saw this bald man on an armored car, I realized that we were in big trouble. (About Lenin.)

* * *

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

* * *

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

* * *

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

“Maybe I can sing something to him?”

“Well, why do it all at once,” Ranevskaya objected. “Let’s try again in a good way.”

* * *

How wrong is the notion that there are no irreplaceable actors.

* * *

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

* * *

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

Ranevskaya once said about this:

- And the playwrights have settled down quite well - they receive royalties from each performance of their plays! Nobody else gets anything like this. Take, for example, the architect Rerberg. According to his project, the building of the Central Telegraph on Tverskaya was built in Moscow. Even a board hangs with an inscription that this building was erected according to the project of Ivan Ivanovich Rerberg. However, he is not paid deductions for the telegrams that are served in his house!

* * *

How cruelly 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 loss of thousands of lives, there was a new tragedy - 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. and 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 whole planet, then I would be unhappy, as I am now.

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

* * *

How humiliating my life is.

* * *

When they don't give me a role, I feel like a pianist whose hands have been cut off.

* * *

Criticesses are Amazons in menopause.

* * *

Someone remarked, "No one wants to listen, everyone wants to talk." Is it worth talking?

* * *

When I wake up in the morning and feel that nothing hurts me - I think that I have already died!

* * *

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

* * *

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

“I don't like Mass in a mess.

* * *

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

* * *

Where is this damn money going, can you tell me? They scatter like cockroaches with monstrous speed.

* * *

Lesbianism, homosexuality, masochism, sadism are not perversions. There are, in fact, only two perversions: field hockey and ballet on ice.

* * *

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

* * *

Who, besides my Pavel Leontievna, wanted me well in the theater? Who suffered when I was without work? Nobody needed me. Okhlopkov, Zavadsky, Alexander Dmitrievich Popov were indulgent, Zavadsky hated. I ran from theater to theater, looking for, but not finding. And it's all. Personal life also did not take place. ... In the theater Zavadsky rotting alive.

* * *

I am amused by the excitement of people over trifles - I myself was the same fool. Now, before the finish, I understand clearly that everything is empty. All you need is kindness and compassion.

* * *

Painful tenderness for animals, pity for them, I suffer at night, for people this is no longer there. Old women, old men, it’s only a pity, nobody needs them.

* * *

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

* * *

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

* * *

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

* * *

…I guess I'm a pure Christian. I forgive not only enemies, but also my friends.

* * *

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

* * *

You can't learn to be an artist. You can develop your talent, learn to speak, express yourself, but to shock - no. To do this, one must be born with the nature of an actor.

* * *

My favorite disease is scabies: I scratched myself and still want to. And the most hated - hemorrhoids: neither to see for yourself, nor to show people.

* * *

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!

* * *

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

* * *

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

* * *

Bad manners in maturity speaks of the absence of a heart.

* * *

Nothing but despair from the inability to change anything in my destiny.

* * *

There is no pain more painful than longing.

* * *

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

* * *

- Nonna, is the artist N. dead?

“That’s what I see, he lies in a coffin ...

* * *

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: falseness, cruelty, hypocrisy. Not one honest word, not one 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 is a condition that cannot be cured.

* * *

Loneliness is a state of which there is no one to tell.

* * *

One day a young man called her, saying that he was working on a diploma on Pushkin. On this topic, Ranevskaya was always ready to talk. 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 at all?" - "Why? I avenged him terribly!” - "How?" “When he once again came to me, I said with my voice into 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 ten years for herself, but I, an idiot, only a year or two - I don’t remember. I thought that I spent so much in the resorts, and the resorts, as you know, do not count!

* * *

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

– Has anyone seen our ZasRaKu?!

* * *

He will die from the expansion of fantasy. (About director Y. Zavadsky.)

* * *

Optimism is a lack of information.

* * *

About roses: “Look, what greatness! You can not tear yourself away from them, do not think about them. They are aging, blossoming before our eyes. The first person to compare a woman to a rose was a poet. And the second is vulgar."

* * *

Spelling errors in a letter are like a bug on a white blouse.

* * *

I am re-reading Babel for the hundredth time and am more and more amazed at this miracle that was killed.

* * *

It's very hard to be a genius among goats.

* * *

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

* * *

About the director: perpetum male.

* * *

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

* * *

I understood what my misfortune was: I, rather, am a poet, a home-grown philosopher, a “domestic fool” - I don’t get along with life! I buy things to give away. I wear old clothes, always unsuccessful. Freak me.

* * *

I stopped thinking about the public and immediately lost my shame. Or maybe, in the literal sense, “I 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 - all that he did in art.

* * *

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

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

* * *

“Before the great mind I bow my head, before the Great heart I kneel” - Goethe. And I am with him. Ranevskaya.

* * *

Do you understand my shallow thought?

* * *

After another skirmish with the chief director of Mosfilm, Ivan Pyryev, Ranevskaya said that she would rather take antipyrin three times a day than agree to work together.

* * *

They brought an old dog with broken legs. She was treated by kind dog doctors. A dog is much kinder than a person and nobler. Now she is my great and, perhaps, the only joy. She guards me, does not let anyone into the house. God bless her!

* * *

"To the one who asks, give" - the Gospel. What does it mean to give even to those who do not ask? Even what you need yourself?

* * *

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

* * *

Damned nineteenth century, damned upbringing: I can't stand when men are sitting.

* * *

Birds swear like actresses because of roles. I saw how the sparrow obviously spoke taunts to another, tiny and weak, and as a result poked him in the head with his beak. Everything, like people.

* * *

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

* * *

Two plays were sent for reading.

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

* * *

Ranevskaya roamed the theaters. Theater critic Natalya 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 the reality is when the opposite is true.

* * *

Today I visited Shchepkina-Kupernik, who spoke about the corrector, who remade the phrase "... Mars and Venus stood on a stone" into "MARKS and Venus."

* * *

The most terrible thing is to offend, upset a person, hit a dog, not feed it when it is hungry.

* * *

Today I met my first love. He mumbles with false teeth, and what a charm it was ...

We are both ashamed of our old age.

* * *

It’s scary when you’re eighteen inside, when you admire beautiful music, poetry, painting, and it’s time for you, you haven’t done anything, but you’re just starting to live!

* * *

Sclerosis cannot be cured, but it can be forgotten.

* * *

Making a bad movie is like spitting into eternity.

* * *

A neighbor, the widow of the Moscow Soviet chief, changed Romanian furniture for Yugoslav, Yugoslav - for Finnish, was nervous. She supervised the loaders ... And she died at the age of 50 on a furniture set. Girl!

* * *

The strongest feeling is pity.

* * *

The old face did not become my tragedy - at the age of 22 I already put on make-up as an old woman and got used to and fell in love with the old women in my roles. And recently she wrote to my peer: “Old women, I loved you, be vigilant!”

Knipper-Chekhova, a marvelous old woman, once told me: "I only started to wear perfume in my old age."

Old women are vicious, and by the end of life 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 get good from morning to evening!

* * *

Old age is when it’s not bad dreams that bother you, but bad reality.

* * *

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

* * *

Companion of glory - loneliness.

* * *

I'm trying to remember if I've seen any humanoids in the movies in 26 years? Perhaps one Chernyak, who died of decency.

* * *

Old age is the time when candles on a birthday cake cost more than the cake itself, and half of the urine goes to tests.

* * *

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

* * *

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

* * *

Family replaces everything. Therefore, before you start 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.

* * *

It's amazing when I was 20 years old, I only thought about love. Now I just like to think.

* * *

“Even the autumn forest is not pathetic,

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

“Oh my God, why am I like this!”

* * *

What an actor wants to tell about himself, he must act, not write memoirs. I think so.

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

* * *

“You have the same handicap as I do. No, not the nose - modesty! - Faina Ranevskaya to Elena Kamburova.

* * *

“Madame, could you exchange a hundred dollars for me?”

- Alas! But thanks for the compliment!

* * *

A smart man knows how to get out of a difficult situation, but a wise man never gets into it.

* * *

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

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People are like candles!…

Men and women are two poles of love

Medicine + diet = health? Is not a fact!

About life and loneliness

About theater and cinema: Stanislavsky's miscarriage

About colleagues: everything will be real!

Old age and small pleasures

Situations and dialogues

Memory of the heart

Quotes and aphorisms of Faina Ranevskaya

Ranevskaya's statements about women

Ranevskaya's statements about health

Ranevskaya's statements about old age

Ranevskaya's statements about work

Ranevskaya's statements about herself and life

Ranevskaya's statements on various topics

Quotes

Actress stories

Through laughter and tears

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