Faina Ranevskaya's best quotes (100 quotes)
The brilliant actress Faina Ranevskaya fell in love with the audience for her poignant roles in theater and cinema. It's amazing how the words spoken by the actress many years ago sound catchy and to the point today. And it’s as if you can see the sly squint of her eyes, a thin nervous hand with an invariable cigarette and mockingly curved lips... We decided to recall the witty statements of the great actress, which at one time forced our interlocutors to remain silent for a long time. The best quotes from Faina Ranevskaya are collected in this section of our website.
I've been swimming in the toilet butterfly style my whole life.
Think and say whatever you want about me. Where have you seen a cat that was interested in what mice had to say about it?
We have been accustomed to single-cell words, scant thoughts, play Ostrovsky after this!
If the patient really wants to live, doctors are powerless.
Horseradish, based on the opinions of others, ensures a calm and happy life.
The brain, the ass and the pill have a soul mate. And I was initially whole.
Under the most beautiful peacock tail hides the most ordinary chicken ass. So less pathos, gentlemen.
It’s better to be a good person who “swears” than a quiet, well-mannered creature.
I'm like eggs: I participate, but I don't enter.
Thoughts are drawn to the beginning of life - which means life is coming to an end.
Women, of course, are smarter. Have you ever heard of a woman who would lose her head just because a man has beautiful legs?
Why are all women such fools?
They live together. Like husband and wife. Although no. They live much better.
Eating alone is as unnatural as shitting together!
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.
Ranevskaya was asked if she knew the reasons for the divorce of a couple she knew. Faina Georgievna replied:
“They had different tastes: she loved men, and he loved women.”
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.
Everything pleasant in this world is either harmful, immoral, or leads to obesity.
There are no disadvantages for an actress if it is necessary for the role.
Even the most beautiful peacock tail hides the most ordinary chicken ass. So less pathos, gentlemen.
Life is too short to waste it on diets, greedy men and bad moods.
When I start writing my memoirs, beyond the phrase: “I was born into the family of a poor oil industrialist...”, I can’t do anything.
When a jumper's legs hurt, she jumps while sitting.
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.
To gain recognition one must, even must, die.
There is such love that it is better to immediately replace it with execution.
Optimism is a lack of information.
Lesbianism, homosexuality, masochism, sadism are not perversions. Actually, there are only two perversions: field hockey and ice ballet.
My wealth is obviously that I don't need it.
Beautiful people shit too.
Horseradish, based on the opinions of others, ensures a calm and happy life.
I don't recognize the word "play". You can play cards, horse races, checkers. You need to live on stage.
There are people in whom God lives; There are people in whom the devil lives; And there are people that live only worms.
Everything pleasant in this world is either harmful, immoral, or leads to obesity.
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.
Growing old is boring, but it's the only way to live long.
I hate you. Wherever I go, everyone looks around and says: “Look, it’s Mulya, don’t make me nervous, she’s coming.”
If you expect someone to accept you “as you are,” then you are just a lazy idiot. Because, as a rule, “the way it is” is a sad sight. Change, you bastard. Work on yourself. Or die alone.
Everyone is free to dispose of their ass as they please. So I pick mine up and fuck off.
Today's youth are terrible. But what is even more terrible is that we do not belong to it.
I receive letters: “Help me become an actor.” I answer: “God will help!”
The worst thing is when a person no longer belongs to himself, but to his decay.
Women, of course, are smarter. Have you ever heard of a woman who would lose her head just because a man has beautiful legs?
People create their own problems - no one forces them to choose boring professions, marry the wrong people or buy uncomfortable shoes.
Pee-wee on the tram is all he did in art.
— Why do women devote so much time and money to their appearance, and not to the development of their intellect?
- Because there are much fewer blind men than smart ones.
Talent is self-doubt and painful dissatisfaction with oneself and one’s shortcomings, which I have never encountered in mediocrity.
When I start writing my memoirs, beyond the phrase: “I was born into the family of a poor oil industrialist...” - I can’t do anything.
This is the fourth time I’ve watched this film and I must tell you that today the actors played like never before.
A woman must have two qualities to succeed in life. She must be smart enough to please stupid men, and stupid enough to please smart men.
It’s better to be a good person who “swears” than a quiet, well-mannered creature.
I am amused by people’s excitement over trifles; I was just as stupid myself. Now, before the finish line, I understand clearly that everything is empty. All you need is kindness and compassion.
Sclerosis cannot be cured, but it can be forgotten.
When Faina Georgievna was asked which women, in her opinion, are prone to greater fidelity - brunettes or blondes, she answered without hesitation: “Grey-haired!”
When I die, bury me and write on the monument: “Died of disgust.”
I was smart enough to live my life stupidly.
I feel well, but not well.
It is very difficult to reach the level of a genius among all sorts of boogers.
Darling, if you want to lose weight, eat naked and in front of the mirror!
Life is too short to waste it on diets, greedy men and bad moods.
Many people complain about their appearance, but no one complains about their brains.
Many people complain about their appearance, but no one complains about their brains.
When I retire, I will do absolutely nothing. The first months I will just sit in a rocking chair.
- And then?
“And then I’ll start swinging.”
The union of a stupid man and a stupid woman gives birth to a heroine mother. 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.
I’m watching this film for the fourth time and I must tell you that today the actors played like never before.
What kind of world surrounds us? There are so many crazy people around... but what fun it is to be with them!
A smart person knows how to get out of a difficult situation, but a wise person will never get into one.
Women are not the weaker sex, the weaker sex are rotten boards.
And whatever nature does to a person.
Family replaces everything. Therefore, before you get one, you should think about what is more important to you: everything or family.
God created women beautiful so that men would love them, and stupid women so that they would love men.
I don't recognize the word "play". You can play cards, horse races, checkers. You need to live on stage.
— Faina Georgievna, what does a woman look like if you stand her upside down? - For the piggy bank. - And the man? - On the hanger.
I still remember decent people... God, how old I am.
I understood what my misfortune was: rather a poet, a home-grown philosopher, an “everyday” fool - I don’t get along with everyday life! Money gets in the way both when it is not there and when it is there. I buy things to give them as gifts. I wear old clothes, which are always bad. I'm a freak.
Once you get married, then you will understand what happiness is. But it will be too late.
Memories are the wealth of old age.
The companion of fame is loneliness.
If a woman tells a man that he is the smartest, it means she understands that she will not find another such fool.
You have to live in such a way that even the bastards remember you.
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!
Life goes by without bowing like an angry neighbor.
The union of a stupid man and a stupid woman gives birth to a heroine mother. 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.
Optimism is a lack of information.
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.
I've been swimming in the toilet butterfly style my whole life.
What I loved most in my life was falling in love.
I was smart enough to live my life stupidly.
How I envy the brainless.
Faina Georgievna, how are you? - Do you know, my dear, what shit is? So it’s like jam compared to my life.
Life goes by without bowing like an angry neighbor.
Damn nineteenth century, damned upbringing: I can’t stand when men are sitting.
How life slipped by, I never even heard nightingales sing.
I’m like an old palm tree at a train station - no one needs it, but it’s a shame to throw it away.
A person’s passport is his misfortune, because a person should always be eighteen, and a passport only reminds you that you cannot live like an eighteen-year-old.
I spoke for a long time and unconvincingly, as if I was talking about the friendship of peoples.
Old age is when it is not bad dreams that bother you, but bad reality.
My funeral belongings,” Faina Georgievna said about her awards.
Old age is when it is not bad dreams that bother you, but bad reality.
They had different tastes: she loved men, and he loved women.
Statements by Faina Ranevskaya about creativity and talent
Starring in a bad movie is like spitting into eternity.
I lived with many theaters, but never enjoyed it.
How wrong it is to believe that there are no irreplaceable actors.
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.
I receive letters: “Help me become an actor.” I answer: “God will help!”
You can't 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.
In general, I noticed that talent is always drawn to talent, and only mediocrity remains indifferent, and sometimes even hostile.
Mediocrity always says this about himself: “Today I played amazingly like never before! Do you know how humble I am? All of Europe knows how modest I am!”
In the acting life you need luck. More than any other, the actor is dependent; he is not given the choice of roles.
I don't recognize the word "play". You can play cards, horse races, checkers. You need to live on stage.
This is the fourth time I’ve watched this film and I must tell you that today the actors played like never before.
In the theater the talented people loved me, the untalented people hated me, the mongrels bit me and tore me to pieces.
Talent is self-doubt and painful dissatisfaction with oneself and one’s shortcomings, which I have never encountered in mediocrity.
It's very hard to be a genius among boogers.
Talent is like a wart - either it is there or it is not.
Ranevskaya's statements about old age
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Old age is when it is not bad dreams that bother you, but bad reality.
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I’m like an old palm tree at a train station - no one needs it, but it’s a shame to throw it away.
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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!
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My God, how life has slipped by, I have never even heard nightingales sing.
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Thoughts are drawn to the beginning of life - which means life is coming to an end.
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When I die, bury me and write on the monument: “Died of disgust.”
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Growing old is boring, but it's the only way to live long.
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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.
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