Ranevskaya's statements about life, men and work. From the lips of the great: the best quotes of Faina Ranevskaya All statements of Faina Ranevskaya about men

Faina Ranevskaya is rightfully considered one of the greatest actresses of the 20th century. Throughout her career, Ranevskaya never had her main role, but those secondary roles that the actress played were remembered much more. However, the actress is known not only for her films. Among other things, Ranevskaya is the queen of quotes. There are so many aphorisms, the authorship of which is attributed to Ranevskaya, that they can be safely arranged in a separate volume ...

About women and men:

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

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.

Women are not the weaker sex, the weaker sex are rotten boards

Only ugly people are always jealous of their husbands, my dears, but we beauties are not up to it, we are jealous of strangers ...

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!

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.

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.

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

If you get married, Alyoshenka, then you will understand what happiness is. But it will be too late.

About health:

I feel myself, but not well.

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

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

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

What I do? I pretend to be healthy.

Sclerosis cannot be cured, but it can be forgotten.

My dear, if you want to lose weight - eat naked and in front of a mirror!

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

A very slender woman is sitting in my fat body, but she does not manage to get out. And given my appetite, it looks like a life sentence for her.

“Faina,” her old friend asks, “do you think medicine is making progress?”
“But 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. ”

About 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!

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

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

“It's amazing,” Ranevskaya said thoughtfully, “When I was 20 years old, I only thought about love. Now I just like to think."

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

Life passes and does not bow like an angry neighbor.

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.

Sometimes it seems to me that I am still living only because I really want to live. For 53 years, a habit has developed to live in the world. The heart works sluggishly and all the time makes attempts to stop serving me, but I order it: "Fight, cursed, and don't you dare stop."

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

There are a million fans, but there is no one to go to the pharmacy.

About work:

Making a bad movie is like spitting into eternity.

I lived with many theaters, but never enjoyed it.

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

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

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

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.

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

About life:

Life takes so much time from me that I have no time to write about it.

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

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

Looking at the hole in her skirt: “Nothing can hold back the pressure of beauty!”

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

I was smart enough to live my life stupidly.

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

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

The main thing is to live a living life, and not to fumble through the back streets of memory.

Everything will come true, you just have to lose your will...

Do you know, honey, what is shit? So here it is compared to my life - jam.

Do you understand my shallow thought?

Miscellaneous:

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

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

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

A lady can already choose for herself whom she impresses.

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

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

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

How much talent did you need to have, in order to, practically without playing the main roles, be considered one of the best actresses of your century? A tragicomic actress who never played her most important role. She was doomed to loneliness because of her talent.

Ranevskaya's aphorisms are surprisingly popular; any writer can envy the frequency of citing her "trademark" expressions. She perceived the theater as a separate unique world. She was selflessly in love with him. Obviously, art rests on such people.

Her real name is Faina Girshevna Feldman. Her father's name was Girsh Khaimovich Feldman, and her mother was Milka Rafailovna Zagovailova. The pseudonym “Ranevskaya” will be invented for the girl only twenty years later. The girl was born on August 27, 1896 in the family of a Taganrog industrialist, at the turn of the Silver and Iron Ages. Her soul entirely belonged to the age of Pushkin. And she was destined to go through a bright and tragic path for her loneliness. It is about this - eloquent aphorisms about life, said by herself.

Childhood, youth

The character of the girl manifested itself in the gymnasium. She completely refused to attend the Mariinsky Gymnasium because of the study of the exact sciences. But with pleasure she devoted a lot of time to literature, singing. Faina Ranevskaya in her youth was already an incorrigible idealist. Looking ahead, let's say that she remained the same for the rest of her life. Then tactful parents transferred their daughter to home schooling.

At the age of 15, the girl firmly decided to become an actress, and studied at a creative studio, and at 19 she left for Moscow to become an actress.

Moscow ordeals. Help ballerina

Faina was in despair: she could not get a job in any metropolitan theater on her own. Faina Ranevskaya in her youth was like Andersen's ugly duckling. In a tall, shy and clumsy girl, the directors did not consider the divine gift of the actress. There was no money for life (my parents emigrated). In desperation, Faina asked for money from her father's former business partner, but he refused.

However, here, obviously, fate intervened. Just on the street, she, who had no means of subsistence, lonely and hopelessly leaning on a column of the opera house in Moscow, was seen by the famous ballerina Ekaterina Geltser. She took pity on “the most miserable girl in the world.”

Thanks to her participation, Ranevskaya Faina Georgievna got a job as an actress in the country theater of Malakhovka near Moscow, in the troupe of Madame Lavrovskaya. It was during that period that, with the light hand of the actors of Malakhovka, a nickname was assigned to her, which later became the stage name "Ranevskaya". Chekhov's heroine of the same name in The Cherry Orchard, as you know, tended to overspend. Faina Georgievna really resembled her in this respect. Sometimes immersion in her inner world prevailed over her common sense ...

Once in Kerch, where the dacha theater was touring, Ranevskaya went to the bank to get her salary. Going out into the street, she thoughtfully held the banknotes in her hands. When a sudden stream of wind swept them away, the girl only managed to say: “How sad when they fly away!” After this episode, no one called her by the name Feldman ... But the semi-amateur troupe could not nourish her talent for a long time.

In desperation from the deceit and mediocrity of fellow rogues on tour in Feodosia (she was not paid the money she earned), the actress leaves them and goes to Rostov.

Indeed, the dacha theater could become for Faina Georgievna only an intermediate milestone in her work. In fact, it did not even look like a temple of art. Uncreative people in the positions of actors and directors, everyday disorder. Many of Ranevskaya's statements testify to the discrepancy between acting ideals and reality.

Help actress Pavla Wolf

The future people's artist, who then only dreamed of the scenes of the capital's theaters, again became a beggar ... The brilliant actress Pavel Vulf, who performed in Rostov, turned out to be exactly the creative teacher that a romantic girl in love with art needed. Understanding the essence of the acting profession is distinguished by many aphorisms of Ranevskaya.

She taught Faina to really work creatively on the role like a demiurge: first, understanding it, studying it to the smallest nuances, comprehending the very soul of the heroine, and then inspiringly breathing life into her with her acting. Undoubtedly, thanks to her, the girl took place as a creative person, and her unique talent received a proper cut. Pavla Vulf taught her best student not to play, but to live on stage, to see what the author wrote between the lines and display it.

In difficult times, Pavel Wolf sheltered her, saved her from the horrors of the civil war, taking her to the relatively calm Feodosia. And already there, both of them managed to resist hunger, greedily grabbing absolutely any role. The help of Maximilian Voloshin, who lives not far from them (namely, in Koktebel), was a great help. Without the fish that he brought them, it would be completely hungry ...

NEP. Theatrical thaw

In 1923-1924. the NEP began. Finally, the country was satiated, moved away from hunger! It was the era of jazz, which at that time was associated with freedom of morals. The press stopped displaying exclusively decrees, and people read voraciously about celebrities, learning that:

• the poets Balmont and Yesenin took polygamy and drank;
• Akhmatova, falling in love with Blok, divorced Gumilyov and then recklessly entered into a series of marriages;
• A. Blok does not live with his wife, but V. Mayakovsky lives with someone else.

The young actress, full of creative powers, dreamed of audience fame, she wanted not only to play on stage, but to live in art. Ranevskaya's statements testify to this.

At that turbulent time, Pavel Vulf and Faina Ranevskaya received an invitation for one season from the Kazan Theater. Then both moved to Moscow. Ranevskaya Faina Georgievna met with the leading actor of the Moscow Art Theater V. I. Kachalov. Friendship with this man bound her until the end of his life. Her dream was to perform in this theater. However, it seems that at that time it was not destined to be implemented. Vasily Ivanovich even arranged for her a meeting with Nemirovich-Danchenko, but Ranevskaya was so embarrassed and confused at her that he called her “crazy”.

Playing in different theaters of the USSR

In 1925, Ranevskaya Faina Georgievna managed to play in three theaters: the Moscow MONO, the sanatorium theater in Artemovsk, and the Baku Workers' Theatre. In the latter, she met an actor. She brilliantly succeeds in roles in the performances “Our Youth” and “Hurricane”.

In 1926-1927. Pavel Vulf and Faina Ranevskaya performed first in Gomel, then in Smolensk. In their performance, the performance based on the work of K. A. Tenev “Love Yarovaya” came to life. Then Faina Georgievna changed two more theaters: Arkhangelsk and Stalingrad. It was in the latter, thanks to the assistance of director Boris Pyasetsky, that Ranevskaya herself began to invent roles for herself. He found the key to her talent. “I need you to play!” he said to the actress. That's how she played in the "Law of honor", "Storm".

Then, having traveled almost the entire Soviet Union, Faina Georgievna returns to Moscow. True, for two more seasons: in 1930 and 1931. Pavel Wolf and Ranevskaya are going to Baku. The first was invited to a pedagogical job, the second - to the Theater of Working Youth. Director Savchenko, thanks to his subtle vision of the true spirit of the classics, impressed the actress. She was no longer that naive girl who came to study theatrical art.

Faina Ranevskaya probably said more aphorisms about women than any classic playwright. There was fierce competition between theater actresses. Not always honest, sometimes harmful to art. However, Ranevskaya, thanks to her developed imaginative thinking, could bring to light with just one phrase, show who is who. Its characteristics are deep and figurative:

• a mixture of field bell and rattlesnake;
• against whom we are friends, girls (said to the actresses, whispering backstage);
• She doesn't have a face, she has a hoof.

She was imperiously attracted to the Moscow Art Theater. However, she began the conquest of Moscow with the Chamber Theater directed by Alexander Tairov. This time has not passed in vain. The philosophy of the maestro that the truth of art often does not coincide with the truth of life forced Ranevskaya to play in such a way that the audience felt the plot was part of their real life. The role of Zinka in Kulish's Pathetic Sonata made theater connoisseurs (for example, GITIS professor Golubovsky) speak of her as a star of the first magnitude.

In the Central, the actress Faina Ranevskaya first met the director, to whom she had an antipathy and with whom she subsequently had to work for many years. We are talking about Yuri Alexandrovich Zavadsky. “Well, what did Faina call me now?” - Zavadsky asked feignedly humbly. Indeed, Ranevskaya did not skimp on phrases, here are just a few:

• Gertrude (the director bore the title of Hero of Socialist Labor);
• Fluff (he was bald);
• midget, elongated in length (due to high growth).

And Zavadsky was also amorous, he fooled many of Ranevskaya's friends: Marina Tsvetaeva, daughter of Pavla Wolf. Indeed, there were good reasons for antipathy.

However, speaking objectively, Ranevskaya should have been grateful to Zavadsky for the fact that he actually saved all the actors of the troupe alive, having achieved the transfer of the theater to Rostov in 1936. Together with Ranevskaya there were Vyacheslav Plyatt, Pavel Wolf, Nikolai Mordvinov.

In the days of mourning after the death of Maxim Gorky, Ranevskaya fell for the first time and brilliantly to play the role of his Vassa Zheleznova (the play lay under the cloth for 25 years). Her game then shocked the entire theatrical Moscow. It would seem that dreams come true: she waited for the invitation of director Sudakov from the Maly Theater. However, the Soviet government did not welcome the movement of personnel on their initiative. Director Popov (Zavadsky gave him the position) staged a real persecution of the actress. The logic was classically soviet: “Today you are a flyer, and tomorrow you are an enemy of the people!” However, Ranevskaya still left! With a scandal, left homeless. Pavel Wulff rescued her again, sheltering her.

Theatrical bullying. Escape to cinema

The actress was left without the theater. Through the efforts of partocrats and intriguers, she never managed to climb the stage of the Maly Theater, where Gruzinsky and Gogoleva, Vladislavsky and Golovin shone. Again, she was begging, selling her things ... Faina Ranevskaya's jokes, aphorisms of that period are distinguished by chased sharpness. They really do. For example, this one, pictured below.

Faina Ranevskaya came to the cinema. She was invited by the director to play the role of Mrs. Loiseau in the silent film “Dumpling” based on the work of Maupassant. The actress was reverent towards high art, so she read the novel in the original and articulated in French on the set. whoever saw this was overjoyed. The tape was waiting for success in the world, the French even bought the film. The secondary heroine Mrs. Loizeau overshadowed the main character Pyshka! However, the one who played Pyshka became the Honored Artist of Russia.

Then Faina Georgievna had a cameo role as a priest in the film “The Thought about the Cossack Golota” directed by Savchenko. Ranevskaya was given freedom in constructing the image of the priest, which is absent in the original work. What happened? It turned out really funny. The film crew held their stomachs. The episode became the highlight of the film.

People's favorite

However, the real fame was brought to her by the role of Madame Skorokhod in the film “Foundling” (1939), which she hated because she poisoned her life. The cliche “Mulya, don’t make me nervous” was repeated even by L. I. Brezhnev, presenting her with the Order of Lenin. When the children once again followed her on the street, shouting this phrase, she turned around to them picturesquely and said: “PionEra, go to zh..u” (this phrase also became popular).

Why did Ranevskaya manage to play brilliantly? Perhaps, Irakli Andronnikov partially answered this, arguing that she managed to show in the role not only “the essence of man”, but also “personal attitude towards him”. From above, she was given a sense of how to deepen and develop the author's intention. In life - modest, unsettled, always doubting herself, Faina Georgievna brilliantly plays imperious, unceremonious, impudently cunning women.

Roles in films

In 1942, she starred in the film "Alexander Parkhomenko", brilliantly playing a textural taper: in the style of the matured Vera Kholodnaya, gnawing on a monk and smoking in a puff. In 1943, Ranevskaya returned to Moscow. There she plays many roles in the Drama Theater: starting with the grandmother of Oleg Koshevoy, ending with the wife of Professor Losev.

At this time, the capital's actors, hungry for work, are returning en masse from the evacuation. Faina Georgievna starred in the films Man in a Case and Wedding (1943), Celestial Slow-Moving (1945), Elephant and Girl (1946), Engineer Kochin's Mistake, Cinderella, Spring (1947) ). On the set of "Spring" she meets Lyubov Orlova, who highly appreciated her game.

Cinderella director Yevgeny Schwartz allowed Ranevskaya, to her delight, to edit the role of the stepmother as she pleased. And she brought her own know-how into this role: “fairy-tale swine”, which is based on a “network of the right people”, and such that “the king will envy”.

She came to the cinema relatively late, already a well-known theater actress, at the age of 38. Her only main role in the film "Dream" was so remembered by the audience that they did not let her pass on the street, enthusiastically reciting: "Mulya, don't make me nervous!" Ranevskaya's aphorisms were replenished with this meaningless phrase, which became synonymous with the henpecked man.

Many connoisseurs of her talent wonder why she has so few film credits? She herself answered this question with a short, polished phrase: "To act in a bad film means to spit in eternity!"

Confrontation: actress Ranevskaya and director Zavadsky

In 1949, director Zavadsky invited Faina Ranevskaya to his theater. Spectators went “to Ranevskaya”. Her roles graced the performances of "Vanity Fair" and "Storm". But once Zavadsky threw out her episode from the play “Storm” in favor of the prima of the theater, his ex-wife Vera Maretskaya. Of course, Faina Georgievna was offended. Her stay at the Moscow Art Theater was by no means cloudless. It's no secret that Faina Georgievna felt and understood art more subtle and multifaceted than the person who led her - the director of the Moscow Art Theater Zavadsky. Their verbal duels, taking place over decades, were like a bullfight. The reason is clear: the director did not want to recognize the primacy of Faina Georgievna, and she, in turn, could not "lower her bar." Be that as it may, but the book of aphorisms by Faina Ranevskaya also includes these pearls of hers:

She changed theaters (Pushkinsky, Moscow City Council, Red Army, Maly Theater, Drama Theater). She performed in many cities of the USSR. However, she nevertheless returned to the Moscow City Council Theater, where she worked until her farewell (at the age of 86) benefit performance in a play where Rostislav Plyatt was her partner.

In the last decade of her stage activity, Ranevskaya faced such a phenomenon as an overly free interpretation of the classics by directors and half-educated actors. She quite motivatedly declared the dangers of such an approach and called it barbarism, when, for example, the content of the work of the same Ostrovsky was deformed on stage.

Actress philosopher

In addition to acting talent, she was given by God and another talent, philosophical - the ability to think figuratively and formulate an idea. Faina Ranevskaya's quotes and aphorisms are sometimes even rude, but surprisingly accurate. According to her, Good should be active, and the Truth should be said straight to the eye. Her expressions were born in different ways, many of which later became winged among the people. Most often immediately, immediately and precisely in the context of the life situation that initiated them. Her wit was innate, it was like a reflex (modern experts consider the actress's IQ to be extremely high).

Faina Georgievna, in principle, did not accept compromises, and always openly responded with powerful charismatic phrases to rudeness or meanness in her address. As an actress, she had one strong trait that everyone had to reckon with: turning a bit part into a masterpiece. Therefore, the directors, who secretly wanted to limit her on stage, because of such a game, were still forced to give her roles again. After all, the audience went to the theater because of Faina! She alone was able to replace the entire troupe. There are cases when, during an unfinished performance in which an actress finished playing her local episode, the audience, after watching the performance of a great actress, simply got up and left.

Loneliness

Ranevskaya's aphorisms about life are mostly sad. And what else should they be? Fate left her alone, without relatives. She never married and had no children. Therefore, she built her own destiny, completely unlike anyone else's. Faina Ranevskaya was laconic when it was about her personally. However, it is known that she did not like men. The feelings for the opposite sex that arose twice in her childhood and youth collided with rudeness and impudence. For the first time, when a schoolboy boy invited her and his real friend on a date at the same time, Faina, crying, only told them: “God will punish you!”

While working at the Mono Theater, she fell in love with the leading actor. He himself made an appointment at her house. However, he appeared there drunk and with a walking woman. After this episode, Faina drew a line under her relationships with men.

How did her relationship develop with her colleagues in the artistic workshop? Completely different. However, she always remained kindly ironic. Ranevskaya's aphorisms about men are known, in which she teases them for their frivolity and illegibility in the choice of girlfriends. Art biographers name the women close to her: Pavel Wolf and Anna Akhmatova.

However, according to biographers, Ranevskaya had connections with men and even pregnancies, but she interrupted them, adjusting to the everyday life of the Theater. And so old age came: not warmed by the laughter of grandchildren, not happy with the arrivals of children.

Death that shook the country

After the death of close friends - Pavla Wolf and Anna Akhmatova - Faina Ranevskaya lived the most terrible, final act of the tragedy, where she was the main actress.

On the wall of her favorite room, combined with an office and a living room, there were portraits of people she knew and respected: Maya Plisetskaya, Maria Babanova, Anna Akhmatova, Vladimir Mayakovsky.

When she could still walk, she picked up a half-frozen mongrel and sheltered her in her apartment. There was another consolation: a volume of the most beloved poet - Pushkin. Terrible, terrible loneliness.

One day, a woman looking after an 86-year-old actress, entering the apartment, found her dead, and a dog howled with grief nearby.

Conclusion

Faina Georgievna Ranevskaya herself complained that she was realized in her work by only 1% out of 100% possible. In art, she was an absolute maximalist, as evidenced by her aphorisms. Ranevskaya the actress was characterized by such a trait as constant creative dissatisfaction with the level of her personal performance of roles. Perhaps that is why her level of interpretation of the role was an order of magnitude higher than the depth of the director's settings. Unfortunately, often the latter, having organizational power, were literally jealous of the unique actress for art, dooming her role to episodes. Faina Ranevskaya's quotes and aphorisms testify to the unspent energy of the unique actress on the stage...

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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”.

Faina Ranevskaya was a great comedian, and she did not just play a comedy. She lived it, although her life was more like a tragicomedy than light vaudeville. She was one of those women who would not go into their pocket for a word and would easily beat their opponent with a sharp word.

From a hundred or two aphorisms scattered along the way by Ranevskaya - when inadvertently, when in a rush - we chose 30 of those that any satirist would envy:

Optimism is a lack of information.

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

There are a million fans, but there is no one to go to the pharmacy.

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

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

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

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

Sclerosis cannot be cured, but it can be forgotten.

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

Frame: Lenfilm

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

Making a bad movie is like spitting into eternity!

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

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.

— How is life, Faina Georgievna? - I told you last year that shit. But then it was marzipan.

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

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

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

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.

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

frame: Mosfilm

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

Even under the most pretentious peacock tail there is always an ordinary chicken ass.

I do the hardest before breakfast. I get out of bed.

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

There are no fat women, there are small clothes.

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

I noticed that if you do not eat bread, sugar, fatty meat, do not drink beer with fish, the muzzle becomes smaller, but sadder.

December 4, 2015

Faina Ranevskaya - Soviet theater and film actress. She was a supporting star. After all, even playing minor roles, Faina managed to be remembered and get into the heart of the viewer. And, despite the fact that the actress died back in 1984, Faina Ranevskaya's quotes are remembered and used to this day.

Let's remember the 10 most striking phrases of Fin Ravneska about men. After all, she knew how to speak out about the opposite sex, like no other.

Faina Ranevskaya quotes: witty sayings about men

Faina Ranevskaya had neither a family nor a husband. People who knew the actress well say that despite fame and recognition, she was wildly insecure. “Everyone who loved me didn’t like me. And whom I loved - they didn’t love me, ”she said.

“And what did the actress think about men in general? Let's watch.

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

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“The myth that women only need money was invented by men who have no money…”

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

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“Their husbands, my dears, are always jealous only of the ugly, and we beauties are not up to it, we are jealous of strangers ...”

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“The union of a stupid man and a stupid woman gives rise to a mother-heroine. 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.

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

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

TO THE POINT:

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- Why do women devote so much time and money to their appearance, and not to the development of intelligence?
“Because there are far fewer blind men than there are smart ones.

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If you get married, son, then you will understand what real happiness is!
- Yes?
Yes, but it will be too late...

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