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 remarked: “This lady has impressed 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 kind of ass is called a “playing ass.” ***Which women do you think tend to be more 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 rip in her skirt) *** Critics 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 I do? I feign health. *** I feel, 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 you can forget about it.
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 me, 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.” ***Getting 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 of the urine goes for testing.
About work
The money is eaten up, but the shame remains. (About his work in films) *** Starring in a bad film is like spitting into eternity. *** When I’m not given a role, I feel like a pianist whose hands were cut off. *** I am Stanislavsky’s miscarriage. *** I am a provincial actress. Wherever I served! Only in the city of Vezdesransk I 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 is the opinion 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 imagination. (About director Yu. Zavadsky) *** Pee-pee on the tram - everything he did in art. *** I do not 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 writing 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 should disappear between us. *** I don’t come across faces, but personal insults. *** So that we can see how much we overeat, 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? *** A child from the first grade of school must 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 except the groom has kissed me yet.” - “Are you bragging, 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 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 one cannot, the second time when the first one 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,” notes one of the accompanying people. “It’s really not witty,” Ranevskaya sighs. — The fact is that I left all the tickets on the piano. *** One day Yuri Zavadsky, artistic director of the Theater. The Moscow City Council, where Faina Georgievna Ranevskaya worked (and with whom she had a far from rosy relationship), shouted in the heat of the moment to the actress: “Faina Georgievna, you devoured my entire directorial plan with your acting!” “That’s why I feel like I’m full of 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. *** At a troupe meeting, the actors are discussing a comrade who is accused of homosexuality: “This is the corruption of youth, this is a crime.” My God, an unfortunate country where a person cannot dispose of 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!
Life path of Faina Ranevskaya
Ranevskaya was born in August 1896 into a wealthy Jewish family. At birth her last name was Feldman. She studied at the Mariinsky Women's Gymnasium, studying singing, music, and foreign languages. From an early age I was interested in theater. In the post-revolutionary years, all relatives moved to Prague, and Faina Georgievna remained to pursue a theatrical career. She worked at the Mossovet Theater for more than a quarter of a century, where she played her most famous roles. In 1934 he made his film debut. During her life she was awarded 14 awards and titles, as well as several dozen roles in films and theater.
How Ranevskaya generated her apt statements
All Ranevskaya’s statements are a reflection of her life experience. Since childhood, Faina Georgievna stuttered, and her brothers and sister mocked her. This forced her to withdraw into herself and act according to the principle “the best defense is an attack.” From childhood, those around her reminded Faina that she was an ugly girl. This led to the formation of painful embarrassment - a complex regarding appearance will remain with Ranevskaya for the rest of her life.
In her personal life, Faina Georgievna never found happiness. All her life the woman was lonely - she always preferred to be friends with men. The only close creature at the end of her life was a dog named Boy.
Thus, all her apt statements were a kind of defensive reaction, an excuse for her loneliness and appearance. They came from the self-doubt that was instilled in childhood, ridiculing Faina’s stuttering and unsightly appearance.
Ranevskaya's quotes about love
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Posted by Svetlana Akzigitova (@akzigitova69) Jun 4, 2021 at 11:31 PDT
It was she who noticed that the pill, the brain and the fifth point have a soul mate. But she, Faina Ranevskaya, believed that she was born whole and self-sufficient. Ironic and sometimes cynical aphorisms about love and relationships were born due to the actress’s self-doubt. Faina was never married, and all her loves ended in bitter disappointment. She had been unlucky since her youth: men preferred more beautiful and frivolous girls, and Faina’s unconventional appearance and wit repelled them. Of course, both will “get” from her later.
- When I was 20 years old, I only thought about love. Now I only like to think.
- They had different tastes: she loved men, and he loved women.
- The brain, the ass and the pill have a soul mate. And I was initially whole.
- God created women beautiful so that men could love them, and stupid so that they could love men.
- Lesbianism, homosexuality, masochism, sadism are not perversions. Actually, there are only two perversions: field hockey and ice ballet.
- I’m like an old palm tree at a train station - no one needs it, but it’s a shame to throw it away.
- What I loved most in my life was falling in love.
- 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 light flirting.
- 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!
