Ranevskaya. What state does not lend itself to Faina Ranevskaya

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In 1915, a thin, sharp-nosed girl entered the office of the director of one of the theaters near Moscow and, mumbling: "Recommendation", held out a letter.

“Dear Vanyusha,” wrote a friend of the director, entrepreneur Sokolovsky. “I am sending you this lady to get rid of her. You yourself somehow delicately, with a hint, explain to her that she has nothing to do on stage, that she has no prospects. Dissuade her somehow from an acting career - it will be better for her and for the theater. This is complete nonsense. Her surname is Ranevskaya.

Faina Georgievna Ranevskaya, the future legend of the Soviet theater and cinema, met a lot of such "Sokolovskys", denying her talent. They were also among colleagues (“Directors did not like me for being active”). Happened among the audience.

Surprisingly, vulnerable, intelligent, with eyes full of wise sadness, Faina Ranevskaya was often associated with ignorant, noisy and enterprising aunts, whom she represented on stage and in films. And only the closest friends of Faina Georgievna knew what she really was. Brilliantly educated, in love with the profession, helpless in everyday life, by the will of fate who did not know either motherhood or conjugal love. Taking advantage of the gullibility, kindness and loneliness of the actress, those around her often deceived and offended Ranevskaya. She hid resentment behind witticisms, behind straightforwardness. Faina Ranevskaya did not know any other way to protect herself from "this muck".

After sixty years of her artistic activity, in the last interview recorded in the series "Old Masters" by documentary filmmaker Marianna Tavrog, the "queen of the episode", "the supporting role performer" admitted that she regrets only one thing:

“I haven't actually played anything. Everything that I would like to say, remained with me.

"Why don't you write a book about your life?" the actress was asked.

“Books should be written by writers and thinkers,” Ranevskaya replied. “And then ... My book would be called The Book of Complaints, and I don’t like to complain.”

And what? Further silence? After all, Ranevskaya left the mortal world without leaving us her autobiography. But her letters are alive, memories of her are passed from mouth to mouth, and the audience still repeats the phrases once spoken by Fufochka and recorded by her colleagues. They contain laughter, tears and great worldly wisdom.

Faina Ranevskaya about health and ill health

Faina Georgievna's colleagues recalled that the actress had poor health, she often visited doctors and now and then found herself in a hospital bed. In order not to lose heart and not let illness take over her, Ranevskaya joked both about her illnesses and about the medical staff with whom she had to deal.

Somehow, once again, Faina Georgievna Ranevskaya went to rest in a sanatorium:

“They appointed me a treating doctor,” the actress recalled. - She came, said hello and said:

- How glad I am that you are with us! It's so nice to see you not on the screen, but in real life!

“Thank you,” I thanked. - I hope that in life they will be able to see me after your hospital.

The doctor laughed and began to make me a cardiogram.

- How is your heart? she asked. - Does not hurt?

- No, I think everything is in order with my heart.

- Weird.

- What's strange?

“Your heart must be hurting. I see it on the cardiogram.

“Know it doesn’t hurt me,” I tried to defend myself.

“That can't be,” the doctor said. - It must hurt you.

Our dispute ended in a draw, but as soon as the doctor left, I took my hand to my heart and felt: it seems that it really starts to hurt.

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“I returned from the Kremlin hospital, where I was very sad, very hard because I feel embarrassed among the “chosen ones” and consider these hospitals the greatest meanness,” Ranevskaya wrote in one of her letters.

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The best cough remedy is castor oil. Doctors know about it, but they do not risk prescribing.

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Faina Ranevskaya was very upset by the death of director Tairov. Completely exhausted, Faina Georgievna turned to a psychiatrist.

- What are you complaining about? the doctor asked.

I can't sleep at night, I cry.

"So you're crying?"

- Was there a relationship?

- What are you, what are you!

- So. Don't sleep. You cry. Loved a friend. There were no relationships. Diagnosis: psychopath! the doctor concluded.

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A young colleague turned to the actress with a question:

- Faina Georgievna, I saw you in the hospital. Got sick?

Ranevskaya did not like to complain about sores, especially to unfamiliar people. And this time she decided to laugh it off:

- I scared my body.

- What they were doing?

- Scared the body. I took him to the hospital to see what would happen to him if he decided to get sick.

- Narcosis helps doctors.

- You wanted to tell the sick, Faina Georgievna?

“No, just the doctors, my dear. Anesthesia is the only way to avoid the advice of the patient during the operation.

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An acquaintance of Faina Georgievna constantly complained of insomnia:

- All night I turn from side to side, I can not sleep.

Ranevskaya snorted:

“If I were spinning, I wouldn’t be able to sleep either. You lie still.

(This advice did not help Faina Georgievna herself. The actress also suffered from insomnia.)

~ ~ ~

Do you know which patients doctors don't like? Ranevskaya asked her colleagues.

- Nytikov? someone suggested.

- No, those who manage to survive, despite all their predictions.

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Is there anything chronic? - the doctor asked Faina Ranevskaya, filling out the examination form in the sanatorium.

Ranevskaya nodded.

– Lack of money and expectation of a brighter future.

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- Faina Georgievna, have you been to the doctor? a colleague asked Ranevskaya. - What did he tell you?

- He didn't say anything. Did not have time. I so frightened him with my complaints that the unfortunate man had a stroke.

~ ~ ~

Sclerosis is hard, but it’s even worse when diarrhea occurs: you are looking for a booth, but you forgot why.

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I will not go to this hypnotist.

- Why, Faina Georgievna?

~ ~ ~

Faina Georgievna's colleagues recalled with what pleasure the actress showed them a huge banner hung on the pediment of the hospital. It consisted of several parts. The result was: “The treatment itself is dangerous to health!”

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“Sclerosis is much better than hemorrhoids,” Faina Ranevskaya once said.

- With what? - clarified a colleague of the actress on the set.

- Hemorrhoids are not visible on their own, and it is inconvenient to complain. And with sclerosis, nothing hurts and, every now and then, news.

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“Medicine has achieved such success that there are practically no healthy people left,” Faina Georgievna complained to her neighbor, returning home from the next medical examination.

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This is a very famous doctor, in his diagnoses there are only the most fashionable diseases, and in his prescriptions only the most expensive medicines.

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Ranevskaya sighed.

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- What?

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– CHAZ? The devil knows.

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The doctor, examining Ranevskaya:

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- Envy.

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- Truth?

- Well, of course.

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I feel myself, but not well.

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After a heart attack:

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“Pushkin,” she answered.

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No, I just look like that.

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- Check it yourself. If from five steps you distinguish a ten from a three, then everything is in order.

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Once Faina Georgievna was hospitalized with a broken arm.

- How did you manage, my dear? - a colleague who came to visit Ranevskaya lamented.

- Yes, I slept on you too ... I had a dream that Arkady Raikin came to me and said: “You are in debt, Faina, and I made a lot of money,” and shows a hat with money.

I reach out and he says:

"Do not be shy. Come closer."

I went to him for money. fell off the bed. Here, now the arm is broken.

~ ~ ~

Faina Ranevskaya's colleagues repeatedly recalled the actress's stories about clinics, hospitals, sanatoriums and doctors. Here is one of them:

“I come to the clinic and complain:

“Doctor, my taste buds have been failing me lately for some reason.

“Give Faina Georgievna the seventeenth test tube,” the doctor commands, turning to the nurse.

- I tried. This is real shit!

- You are perfectly healthy. Your taste buds are in perfect order, says the doctor.

... A few days pass and I again appear in the doctor's office.

- Doctor, I have a taste, but my memory is getting worse and worse.

“Give Faina Georgievna test tube number seventeen,” the doctor asks the nurse, just like the last time.

“But it’s shit in there,” I protest.

“The memory has returned.”

~ ~ ~

Actresses are discussing how to urgently lose weight for the holiday.

“Eat fruit,” advises Ranevskaya.

- Which ones, Faina Georgievna?

- Unwashed.

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Ranevskaya underwent surgery under anesthesia. The doctor asked her to count to ten. From excitement, the actress began to count out of place:

One, two, five, seven...

“Be careful, please,” the doctor asked.

“Understand how difficult it is for me,” the actress began to justify herself. “Because my prompter is not here.

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“Are you saying that my ass got even fatter than it used to be?” It is not surprising, because now I eat ten times a day to smoke, - Faina Georgievna explained.

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- Faina Georgievna, have you fallen ill again? What is your temperature?

“Normal, room temperature, plus eighteen degrees.

~ ~ ~

Ranevskaya invented a new remedy for insomnia and shared her thoughts with her colleague Rina Zelena:

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Once Faina Ranevskaya witnessed the cooing of a couple in love. Girl: - Oh, my cheek hurts.

The young man kissed his beloved on the cheek.

- Does it hurt now?

- Now my cheek does not hurt, but my neck hurts. The young man kissed the girl on the neck.

- Well, how?

- Does not hurt.

Ranevskaya, who was sitting right there, inquired:

- And you, young man, do not treat hemorrhoids?

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“85 years with diabetes is not sugar,” Faina Georgievna lamented.

Faina Ranevskaya and Yuri Zavadsky

There were legends about the mutual hostility of director Yuri Zavadsky and actress Faina Ranevskaya. Perhaps there was no one in the theater, except Faina Georgievna, who would have objected to the director so zealously and so openly mocked him. And only a few days after the funeral of Yuri Alexandrovich ...

“Ranevskaya pressed me to her,” recalled Faina Georgievna’s colleague Gennady Bortnikov, “and was silent for a long time. I was also silent. There was some detachment in Faina Georgievna's eyes.

“Orphaned,” she said. “It was hard with him, but without him it will be very bad.”

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The famous ballerina Galina Ulanova, the last of Zavadsky's wives, in childhood, when asked about who she wants to become in the future, confidently answered: "A boy!"

Hearing about this, Ranevskaya was glad: - Well, after all, that she did not manage to become a boy, otherwise Zavadsky would be accused of same-sex love ...

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Yuri Alexandrovich Zavadsky once again uttered a maxim characteristic of him at the rehearsal and called on the team to think about some question:

- One head is good, but ...

- ... with a body much better! - Ranevskaya managed to insert, instantly destroying all the pathos of the director's performance.

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Yuri Zavadsky at the meeting of the troupe:

- The season promises to be good ... Ranevskaya sighed noisily:

- ... but the promise will not be fulfilled again.

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Zavadsky will always explain what conclusion the actors should come to with their own mind.

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Faina Ranevskaya advised the young actress, who passionately wanted to please Yuri Zavadsky:

- As soon as he approaches you, stand on tiptoe and be silent.

- But for what?

- To look like a ballerina. Oh, and stop eating, ballerinas are all skinny.

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To another remark by director Zavadsky that it would not hurt to quit smoking, Faina Ranevskaya replied:

- Venus also smoked ...

Trying to remember at least one Venus-actress, Yuri Zavadsky puzzled asked:

What is Venus?

- Miloskaya.

- Who told you this?

Ranevskaya shrugged.

- And why did the men beat off her hands?

Zavadsky promised with malicious pleasure:

- And they will beat you back, Faina Georgievna!

The actress was not a bit embarrassed:

- On the monument? Let them fight back. Just put up a monument to begin with.

~ ~ ~

Zavadsky edifyingly at the meeting:

- The word is not a sparrow ...

Ranevskaya agreed:

- Certainly! It is a dove - it will spoil, it will spoil!

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Zavadsky in anger during another skirmish at a rehearsal:

- Faina Georgievna, pull yourself together!

- I can not. I'm afraid to choke.

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- Yuri Alexandrovich, take care of yourself. You will still be useful to yourself,” Ranevskaya advised Zavadsky.

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Zavadsky began to talk about the need to prevent influenza and the obligation of each actor to get vaccinated:

- They promise that this winter Moscow will again be struck down by the flu.

Ranevskaya is anxious:

- Was there a resolution of the party and government, or what?

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- Why did you ask Zavadsky in such detail whether he sees dreams on vacation? - asked one actress Faina Georgievna.

- I want to dream about Yuri Alexandrovich and ruin his whole vacation.

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- Faina Georgievna, why don't you just remain silent in response to my remarks? - Zavadsky fumed - Do you need to answer?

“I can’t leave you indebted by answering silver with gold. You have to exchange yourself.

~ ~ ~

Zavadsky loves it when they tell the truth to the face, no matter how flattering she may be!

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“Zavadsky no longer throws away his rubbish,” Ranevskaya told the actress sitting in the dressing room.

- Why did you decide so?

Why throw it away when you can show it on stage?

~ ~ ~

Zavadsky is worse than he thinks of himself, but perhaps better than I think of him.

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Zavadsky is the best of the directors, if you do not take into account all the others.

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“Zavadsky is also a person,” Ranevskaya explained to her colleague Gennady Bortnikov, “but he has no idea about it yet. Here comes off the pedestal ...

After a little thought:

- No, he won’t get off himself ... but it’s a pity to throw it off. Also a human...

~ ~ ~

Zavadsky Ranevskaya:

- I will no longer advise you anything, you are already smart, come up with this madness yourself!

No, I can't go crazy without your help!

~ ~ ~

Zavadsky never makes mistakes just like that. He makes mistakes as a warning to others.

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The enraged Zavadsky shouted:

- Evil is not enough!

Ranevskaya helpfully:

- I can borrow.

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According to the recollections of colleagues, Faina Ranevskaya was often late. When Zavadsky was in a good mood, he strove to tease her about this:

- Faina Georgievna, why are you late again?

She unperturbed:

- I left the house late.

Why couldn't you have left earlier?

- It was too late to leave early, my dear ...

~ ~ ~

There is mutual love. Zavadsky and I have a mutual dislike. But I'm better off with what I have.

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Hearing how the actors gossip that they have a continuous war with Yuri Zavadsky, Faina Ranevskaya frowned thoughtfully:

- Tell me, have any conventions been canceled there?

- What conventions, Faina Georgievna?

- Well, the military, about the prisoners ...

No, why are you asking?

- If I win, I will have to support Zavadsky.

After a little thought:

- Maybe lose? Let him support me, his wallet is thicker.

~ ~ ~

Zavadsky, tired of the argument with Faina Ranevskaya, waves his hand:

- Okay, let it be your way!

And triumphantly:

Too late, I've already changed my mind!

~ ~ ~

I am very kind. I can even forgive Zavadsky for something he is not guilty of.”

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“I need to go to the store,” Faina Ranevskaya said during one of the rehearsals.

– Something urgent, Faina Georgievna?

Yes, I want to buy pants.

- You don't wear pants.

-Yesterday, Yuri Alexandrovich Zavadsky said that if he sees me in trousers, he will certainly get a heart attack. That's why it's worth wearing them.

~ ~ ~

It is difficult with Zavadsky. If I am silent, he immediately imagines that he is right. If I argue, he considers that he is twice right.

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It is known that Yuri Alexandrovich Zavadsky was married several times.

Including, his wife was actress Vera Maretskaya. Ranevskaya did not miss the opportunity to quip about this:

Zavadsky preferred to see Verka on stage, said Faina Georgievna. “She must be an unsightly sight at home in the morning.”

~ ~ ~

Was the wife of Yuri Alexandrovich and the great ballerina Galina Ulanova.

“Zavadsky could not bear the talkative actresses and chose a ballerina as his wife to keep silent,” said Ranevskaya.

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Yuri Zavadsky was very fond of giving original lectures on acting in particular and on theater in general. Not going to them was considered risky. The actors were afraid of the director's wrath.

Once, after another long and boring lecture, Zavadsky suddenly drew attention to the unusually quiet Ranevskaya:

- Faina Georgievna, something you have not heard for a long time ...

It's to make it look smarter. Those who are silent always look smarter. Would you take an example...

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A colleague of Faina Georgievna, the actor was terribly worried if Zavadsky heard what he said. Ranevskaya encouraged the young man.

- Didn't hear it. Zavadsky never hears if they are not talking about him.

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– These are your words, Faina Georgievna?! - Zavadsky was indignant for some reason.

No, I borrowed them.

~ ~ ~

“Zavadsky discredited me before my descendants,” Faina Georgievna once said.

- What, Faina Georgievna?

- He's a genius bastard. But the descendants, unfortunately, will forget that he is a bastard, but they will remember that he is brilliant. And if a genius does not give the role to Ranevskaya, then Ranevskaya is shit.

~ ~ ~

During one of the rehearsals, Zavadsky heard Ranevskaya talking about him:

- Yuri Alexandrovich loves very much to be told the truth to his face, even if after such revelations the truth-seeker is fired.

“I didn’t fire you, Faina Georgievna,” the director remarked.

“Afraid that I will go away and tell this truth elsewhere.

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Zavadsky exclaimed in despair:

- The audience is simply not able to understand the idea of this performance!

Ranevskaya immediately advised:

- Change the audience.

Zavadsky sarcastically:

- Advise how.

- Write on the poster: "The performance is only for those who are able to understand." There will be a full house, everyone will decide that it is indecent to admit to inability.

~ ~ ~

- If Zavadsky dies, I will die too.

- Why, Faina Georgievna? Do you love him that much?

- Not from melancholy, from an excess of bile. I have no one to pour it on.

~ ~ ~

I do not remember a case when someone managed to be on top of Zavadsky.

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Sometimes Yuri Alexandrovich behaves not like a man, but like a squabbler from a communal apartment.

~ ~ ~

Zavadsky is an elongated midget.

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Zavadsky had a wife - Ulanova. Thank God we didn't dance.

~ ~ ~

I am ending my existence in a garbage heap, that is, in the Zavadsky Theater.

~ ~ ~

The theater is an unbearable vulgarity led by Zavadsky.

~ ~ ~

Zavadsky's creative searches were characterized by Ranevskaya only as "the vagaries of a pregnant kangaroo."

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Ranevskaya was constantly late for rehearsals. Finally, Zavadsky's patience snapped and he asked the actors not to notice the actress when she was once again late.

Running into the rehearsal room, Ranevskaya greeted her colleagues:

- Hello.

Silence.

“Hello,” repeated Faina Georgievna louder, but did not hear the answer.

- Hello.

Zero attention.

- Oh, there is no one? Then I'll go possu.

~ ~ ~

Watching what was happening on the stage, Yuri Alexandrovich could not stand it and yelled:

- Faina Georgievna! You devoured my whole idea with your findings!

“That’s what I feel like I’ve eaten shit,” Ranevskaya muttered loudly enough.

- Get out of the theater! the master shouted.

Approaching the proscenium, Faina Georgievna answered:

- Out of the art!

~ ~ ~

Yuri Alexandrovich Zavadsky loved not only to give lectures, but also to organize master classes in acting, more precisely, in his vision of the theater. Faina Georgievna did not like these events, considering them a waste of time. Once again noticing that Ranevskaya was not trying to hide her yawn, the director began to reproach the actress:

- Faina Georgievna, how is it? I speak and you yawn!

“Don’t be embarrassed,” Ranevskaya said. I always yawn when I'm very interested.

~ ~ ~

Zavadsky:

- Faina Georgievna, why don't you listen to me?

Ranevskaya:

- So that there is no desire to object.

~ ~ ~

Zavadsky:

Our position is firm! Ranevskaya:

- But flexible.

~ ~ ~

Hearing about Zavadsky that he is terribly vindictive and never forgives anything to anyone, Faina Ranevskaya objected:

- Not true! He always forgives himself.

~ ~ ~

Once, Yuri Alexandrovich Zavadsky, who had just received the title of Hero of Socialist Labor for his birthday, was late for a rehearsal. They waited a long time. Finally, unable to stand it, Ranevskaya asked with irritation:

“Well, where is our Gertrude?”

~ ~ ~

There is a perpetum mobile, and Yuri Alexandrovich is a perpetum male.

~ ~ ~

He will die from the expansion of fantasy.

~ ~ ~

Making a mournful face, Ranevskaya remarked: "The family is not without a director."

~ ~ ~

... 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.

~ ~ ~

- Oh, you know, Zavadsky has such grief! - What grief? - He died.

~ ~ ~

During the rehearsal, Yuri Alexandrovich Zavadsky got offended at the actors because of some nonsense, could not restrain himself, shouted, ran out of the rehearsal room, slamming the door and throwing:

- I'm going to hang myself!

Everyone was crushed. Ranevskaya's calm voice rang out in the silence:

- Yuri Alexandrovich will return now. At this time, he always goes to the toilet.

~ ~ ~

Zavadsky is given awards not according to his abilities, but according to his needs. He does not have only the title "Mother - heroine."

~ ~ ~

When Ranevskaya was asked why she did not go to master classes and lectures by Zavadsky about the profession of an actor, Faina Georgievna answered:

“I don't like Mass in a mess.

~ ~ ~

“Doctor, lately I have been very preoccupied with my mental abilities,” Faina Georgievna complained.

"What's the matter, my dear?" What are the symptoms?

- Very disturbing: everything that Zavadsky says seems reasonable to me.

~ ~ ~

Responsiveness has never been the strong point of director Yuri Alexandrovich Zavadsky. He did not want to pretend and did not like. When one day Faina Georgievna had a heart attack on tour, Zavadsky personally took the actress to the hospital and waited in the corridor until the unfortunate woman was given an injection. On the way back to the theater, the director asked:

- What did they say, Faina?

~ ~ ~

Zavadsky - a senile - an entertainer.

~ ~ ~

Faina Ranevskaya often said that Zavadsky would catch a cold only at her funeral.

~ ~ ~

“It is necessary to change the chairs in the auditorium,” Faina Georgievna said.

– Why is that? Zavadsky narrowed his eyes suspiciously.

- Headrests need high.

- Faina Georgievna, the stage is already hard to see from the back rows.

- Another production play, and only those who are not allowed to sleep at home will go to the theater. And it is more comfortable to sleep with a headrest.

~ ~ ~

- I was pleasantly surprised yesterday.

Knowing that the day before Faina Ranevskaya went to a performance at another theater, Zavadsky asked somewhat jealously:

– What is it?

- It turns out that it is worse than ours.

~ ~ ~

- The bad character of Zavadsky is much harder than mine!

Are you sure, Faina? - Vera Maretskaya doubted.

- Certainly! I endure mine easily, but it is difficult.

~ ~ ~

- Where will Zavadsky go to rest when he takes a vacation? Ranevskaya asked.

“It seems to be in the Crimea,” Maretskaya waved her off. - Why you asking?

– I would like to go to a local sanatorium at least once.

3 . Galina Sergeevna Ulanova (1909-1998) - Russian Soviet ballerina, ballet teacher. People's Artist of the USSR (1951). Twice Hero of Socialist Labor (1974, 1980). Winner of the Lenin (1957) and four Stalin (1941, 1946, 1947, 1950) prizes. The most titled and most awarded among all people's artists of the USSR.

Vera Petrovna Maretskaya (1906-1978) - Soviet, Russian theater and film actress. People's Artist of the USSR (1949). Hero of Socialist Labor (1976). Laureate of four Stalin Prizes (1942, 1946, 1949, 1951).

Vsevolod Emilievich Meyerhold (1874-1940) - Russian Soviet theater director, actor and teacher. People's Artist of the RSFSR (1923).

Faina Ranevskaya, great and vulnerable.

In her fate, creative biography, the main role did not happen, but in her personal life - great mutual love. “You have to pay for talent,” Faina Ranevskaya liked to repeat. She herself paid for him with her loneliness ...
Future legend - Faina Ranevskaya (real name Fanny Girshevna Feldman) was born into a wealthy Jewish family on August 27, 1896.
Her parents, Girsh Khaimovich and Milka Rafailovna Feldman, were known and respected in Taganrog. They pointed at their house on Nikolaevskaya Street: “That’s how the mansions are!” Two years after the birth of Fanechka, the father bought the mansion from the merchant and rebuilt it, since the funds allowed. In addition to a paint factory, a mill and a building materials store, the Feldmans owned the St. Nicholas steamer.
My father was a serious and very busy person, my mother was an excellent housewife. But she had almost no time for children: four sons and both daughters were in the care of governesses. Impressive since childhood, Fanechka lacked maternal affection. She also suffered because she was considered an ugly duckling in the family: the girl was born extremely ugly. This was especially striking against the background of her sister, the beautiful Bella. Later, playing in a play based on Ibsen's play, over the phrase "Mom, give me the sun!" Faina Ranevskaya unexpectedly bursts into tears even for herself. It was the motto of her well-fed but loveless childhood.
Faina received a home education, classic for a girl in pre-revolutionary Russia. Additionally, she worked in a private theater studio. Her father took her hobby as a whim: he did not see the talent of an actress in his youngest daughter. Timid and shy, the girl also often stuttered. However, the love for the stage in Ranevskaya's biography made the 19-year-old Fanya, for the first time in her life, show firmness and even rebelliousness. Like a Chekhovian heroine, she raved about the capital, the theater university, the life of Moscow bohemia. Her father was furious with her idea, and then, at her own expense, Fanya bought a one-way train ticket. At the station, secretly from her father, her mother managed to slip a few crumpled banknotes to her daughter.
Alas, the capital in the biography of Ranevskaya did not wait for Faina with open arms, and the verdict of the commission at the theater university was terrible: "Ugly and incapable." But there were no escape routes, and the girl got a job at the Malakhov Dacha Theater. She rented a room on Bolshaya Nikitskaya, where her new acquaintances often dropped in: Marina Tsvetaeva, Anna Akhmatova, Max Voloshin, Osip Mandelstam, Vladimir Mayakovsky.
Fanya entered a private theater studio and at the same time played in the crowd, traveling with the theater through the backwoods. But the money quickly ran out, and the studio had to leave. The actress, now listed in the top ten in the world, has not received a theatrical education ...
Her mother secretly sent her money from her father. And then the revolution broke out, and the entire Feldman family left Russia on their own ship, St. Nicholas. Forever and ever. Faina never saw her loved ones again.
No money, no roof over your head. Around everything is collapsing, rebelling, falling apart ... How to survive in such an environment? Faina humbled her pride and turned to an old friend of her father, a Jewish usurer from the capital, for financial help. But he refused: “I can’t give Feldman’s daughter a little, I don’t have much anymore ...” Humiliated, Faina never asked anyone for anything again. During this difficult period, her teacher, actress Pavel Vulf, extended a helping hand to a girl freezing and dying of hunger. Fanya lived in her apartment for a long time, and they became real friends.
It has always been difficult to exist in Ranevskaya's life. She did not know how to count money and save money, although she was unpretentious in her demands: she ate modestly, wore dresses to holes and slept on a narrow ottoman all her life. They say that the only weakness of the actress was fragrant baths, relaxing in which she would certainly drink tea from her favorite porcelain cup.
Ranevskaya barely made ends meet, but was forced to hire a housekeeper: she never learned how to cook and clean. Housekeepers constantly robbed her, and Faina Georgievna pretended not to notice this. She always treated things not in a feminine way: “Well, the coat was stolen, I bought new boots for him in vain ...”
Throughout her life, Ranevskaya did not set aside any amount. If she received a large fee, she could immediately distribute it to friends who asked for a loan. Giving gifts to friends and even unfamiliar people was the favorite hobby of the actress. The guests who left her apartment checked their pockets: the hostess strove to put perfume, trinkets, banknotes in them - sometimes the last ones.

But no matter how difficult it was, Ranevskaya never changed her acting mission. For a long time she could not find "her" stage. “I slept with many theaters, but I never enjoyed it,” she would say years later. The provincial theaters were replaced by Moscow ones: the Chamber Theatre, the Central Theater of the Red Army, the Drama Theatre. Pushkin, Moscow City Council Theatre. In the latter, Ranevskaya served for almost 30 years. Despite this, she often had conflicts with the main director Yuri Zavadsky, which became the basis for jokes.

So, once at a rehearsal, Zavadsky remarked:
- Faina, you gobbled up my whole idea with your antics!
- I feel like I've eaten shit! - Ranevskaya's mumbling reached Zavadsky.
- Get out of the theater! exclaimed the enraged director. To which the actress retorted:
- Get out of art!
Already living in Moscow, Fanya became the object of courtship of a colleague in the theater. True, the young man did without flowers and sweets, limiting himself to compliments. And one day he asked for a visit. Ranevskaya was worried. I set the table, bought a bottle of the most expensive wine. In the morning I washed all the dishes, floors, wiped the dust four times. After all, a man was supposed to appear in her virginal cell for the first time! Finally, at the appointed hour, the admirer appeared, but not alone. He came with a girl and unceremoniously declared from the threshold: “Fanechka, darling, take a walk somewhere for a couple of hours, huh? We are here to meet you…”
The famous actor Vasily Kachalov became the love of Faina Ranevskaya's life. The biography of their acquaintance was as follows:
Moscow, Stoleshnikov lane. Young Fanya wandered aimlessly through the streets, when suddenly her heart sank: in the glass window of the confectionery she saw Him - her idol, the best actor in the world, the stately, handsome, bearded Vasily Kachalov. Fanechka wanted to come up and get to know each other, but her natural modesty and upbringing did not allow her to do this. She wouldn't throw herself into his arms like some girl in love! And it was necessary to act quickly - the moment could be lost. And Ranevskaya did not think of anything better than to fall at his feet - in the truest sense of the word.
Faina overdid it: falling, she hit her head on the pavement. I woke up in a bakery. She lay on the floor, and her head rested on the knees of a frightened idol. Not herself with happiness, Fanya again lost her senses. From such an unusual acquaintance, their friendship began.
Of course, at first, Ranevskaya, in love, was not easy to watch Kachalov's intrigues: he was married, but often allowed himself novels on the side. Faina was well aware that she would never enter the number of his beauties-mistresses. She got better over the years. She realized that intrigues are not for long, but friendship is forever. In her diary, she writes: “In my life-biography, I loved only two. The first was Kachalov. I don't remember the second...
In the personal life of female happiness, the actress Ranevskaya never found it. She never married, never had children. I have always preferred to be friends with men. The representatives of the stronger sex were either extremely stupid or very smart and understood that they still needed to grow to the level of Faina Georgievna. Somehow, in the post-revolutionary years, one Red Army soldier from among the spectators sent her a note with an invitation to a date. The message, full of spelling errors, ended like this: “... and just try not to come!” Already in her old age, the actress joked that she should have kept that note: “Still, it’s not so often that I was invited on a date!”
Almost nothing is known about Ranevskaya's personal life. Maybe because she really just wasn’t there, but she was busy with work all the time.
The debut of Faina Ranevskaya in the cinema took place late: at the age of 38. She played Madame Loiseau in Mikhail Romm's silent film Pyshka based on a short story by Guy de Maupassant. On the set, they saved on everything, including heating: in the frozen pavilions, the actors could hardly move from the cold. After such a debut, Ranevskaya promised herself that she would never act again. Luckily for us, she didn't hold back. Her filmography is surprisingly short: less than three dozen films. But the viewer remembers every episode with the participation of the actress.

Once, the already elderly Ranevskaya was walking along the boulevard with a young man she knew. Stopped to light a cigarette. Nearby was a cabinet with a poster of the new film. The young man asked:
- Faina Georgievna, everyone loves and respects you. You have starred in popular films. Why is your name never printed on the poster?
- Why, my dear? Every poster mentions me. Here, you see, it is written: "and others."
It was difficult for the actress to refuse a sense of humor, sometimes turning into self-irony, and sometimes into slander. Many of her phrases were reborn into quotes and anecdotes and still live their own, separate life. The famous phrase "Mulya, don't make me nervous!" from the movie "Foundling" came up with Ranevskaya. But she herself was angry if she was called Muley. When Brezhnev, presenting her with another award, said this name, Ranevskaya, right on the stage of the Kremlin, shook her finger at him: “Only hooligans call me that!”
Ranevskaya became a laureate of the Stalin Prizes, had many other orders and awards. Ah, if only they could warm up on cold nights or keep up the conversation in an endless evening!.. “Damn him, this talent that made me lonely,” she wrote about her biography. Fate measured Faina Georgievna a long life: as much as 87 years. She outlived all her friends and in recent years suffered greatly from loneliness.
"Boy! Boy!" - an elderly woman, hobbled on her sore legs, tried to run along the slippery sidewalk. No one recognized in her either Lyalya from The Foundling, or the housekeeper from Spring, or the stepmother from Cinderella. She was talking to an old dog who had fallen off his leash. In the same way, many years ago, Ranevskaya shouted: “My boy!” - following Stanislavsky's departing carriage. She was so excited that she forgot his name, wanted to say how much she admired his work. But the director took her for a madwoman and ordered the coachman to touch her as soon as possible.
In memory of this episode, in her biography, Faina Georgievna called the boy a shabby mongrel with a broken paw, which she picked up at the entrance, cured and fattened. Finally she could take care of someone! The boy quickly got used to it and became insolent. He got the best pieces, he slept on the master's sofa, spoiled rare books from the library. Faina Georgievna looked at all these outrages with tenderness: “I’m not overjoyed at how he sleeps, how good he is with me ...”
For all his terrible character, the Boy loved his mistress selflessly - the only one in the whole world. After the death of Ranevskaya from a heart attack in 1984, the Boy was taken in by a neighbor. All six years, until his death, the faithful dog came to the former apartment of the actress and looked for a long time at the door that was closed forever.

Faina Georgievna Ranevskaya is a famous and popular Soviet theater and film actress. Today, many critics and journalists consider her one of the greatest Russian actresses of the 20th century. She has about 30 films and countless performances to her credit. In 1992, the English encyclopedia "Who's Who" included her in the list of the ten most outstanding actresses of the 20th century. But there is another distinctive feature by which the actress was remembered by millions - these are the sayings, quotes and aphorisms of Ranevskaya. They instantly became winged and dispersed throughout the country and beyond. And even many years after years, after she was gone, these words do not lose their relevance! There are more than a hundred of them:

1. I do not know how to express strong feelings, although I can express myself strongly.
2. Family replaces everything. Therefore, before starting it, you should think about what is more important to you: everything or family.
3. 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.
4. If the patient really wants to live, doctors are powerless.
5. Horseradish, put on the opinions of others, provides a calm and happy life.
6. Let the idiots and clowns out of your life. The circus must tour.
7. Companion of glory - loneliness.
8. Getting old is boring, but it's the only way to live long.
9. Underneath the most beautiful peacock tail is the most common chicken ass. So less pathos, gentlemen.
10. Do you understand my shallow thought?
11. Understand once and for all that the character of your woman is a reflection of your attitude towards her. For the dumb: it's not her bitch, it's you asshole.
12. Talent is like a wart - you either have it or you don't.
13. What kind of world? How many idiots around, how fun they are!
14. It has always been incomprehensible to me - people are ashamed of poverty and not ashamed of wealth.
15. God made women beautiful so that men could love them, and stupid so that they could love men.
16. Many complain about their appearance, and no one complains about their brains.
17. God seems to love the sufferers. Have you ever seen a happy genius? No, everyone was ruffled by life, like a blade of grass in the wind. Happiness is a concept for average citizens in all respects, and there is no justice here.
18. Loneliness as a condition is not treatable.
19. Animals, which are few, were listed in the Red Book, and which are many - in the Book of Tasty and Healthy Food.
20. 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.
21. 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.
22. 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.
33. Success is the only unforgivable sin in relation to your loved one.

24. There is such love that it is better to immediately replace it with execution.
25. I'm like an old palm tree at the station - no one needs it, but it's a pity to throw it away.
26. I spoke for a long time and unconvincingly, as if I were talking about the friendship of peoples.
27. Women are not the weaker sex, the weaker sex is rotten boards.
28. For an actress, there are no disadvantages if it is necessary for the role.
29. Spelling errors in a letter are like a bug on a white blouse.
30. Sclerosis cannot be cured, but it can be forgotten.
31. Thoughts are drawn to the beginning of life - it means that life is coming to an end.
32. To get recognition - it is necessary, even necessary, to die.
33. Now I looked at the photo for a long time - the eyes of the dog are surprisingly humane. I love them, they are smart and kind, but people make them evil.
34. My God, how old I am - I still remember decent people!
35. I do not recognize the word "play". You can play cards, horse races, checkers. You have to live on the stage.
36. Everything pleasant in this world is either harmful, or immoral, or leads to obesity. 37. Life is too short to waste it on diets, greedy men and bad moods.
38. The main thing is to live a living life, and not to fumble through the back streets of memory.
39. I hate you. Wherever I go, everyone looks around and says: “Look, this is Mulya, don’t annoy me, she’s coming.”
40. There are no fat women, there are small clothes.
41. Either I'm getting old and stupid, or today's youth is not like anything! Before, I just didn’t know how to answer their questions, and now I don’t even understand what they are asking about.
42. I don't get along with life! Money interferes with me both when it is not there and when it is.
43. I receive letters: "Help me become an actor." I answer: "God will help!".
44. Old age is a time when candles on a birthday cake cost more than the cake itself, and half of the urine goes to tests.
45. There are people in whom God lives; There are people in whom the devil lives; And there are people that live only worms.
46. Women are, of course, smarter. Have you ever heard of a woman who would lose her head just because a man has beautiful legs?
47. I feel myself, but badly.
48. Health is when you have pain in a different place every day.
49. Talent is self-doubt and painful dissatisfaction with yourself and your shortcomings, which I have never seen in mediocrity.
50. I'm watching this film for the fourth time and I must tell you that today the actors played like never before.
51. Damned nineteenth century, damned upbringing: I can't stand when men are sitting.
52. Old age is when it’s not bad dreams that bother you, but bad reality.
53. It is better to be a good person, "swearing" than a quiet, well-mannered creature.
54. In the theater, talented people loved me, mediocre people hated me, mongrels bit me and tore me to pieces.
55. Everything will come true, one has only to lose desire ...
56. Old age is just disgusting. I believe that this is the ignorance of God when he allows you to live to old age. Lord, everyone is already gone, but I still live. Birman - and she died, and I did not expect this from her. 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!

We agreed with the body: I stop torturing him with diets, and he allows me to smoke.

After another stay in the hospital, Faina Georgievna said:

- There are no incurable diseases. Simply, not all patients live to see their cure.

When asked about her state of health, Ranevskaya answered with a sigh:

“No condition, no health. One simulation.

- Faina Georgievna, you need to quit smoking. Well, gather your will into a fist, - director Yuri Zavadsky asked the actress.

Ranevskaya sighed.

- The fist will turn out too big, they may not understand ...

After a long treatment, Faina Ranevskaya left the hospital.

- Faina Georgievna, how are you? friends asked the actress.

- What?

- Either procedures, then injections, then examinations ... There was absolutely no time to get sick!

One thing I remember for sure: I have sclerosis!

The paradox of medicine: to give a person an accurate diagnosis, you need to perform an autopsy. But since no one wants to undergo an autopsy, they are treated according to approximate diagnoses.

- Faina Georgievna, what was your diagnosis? colleagues asked the actress.

We thought for half a day what it could be. They were embarrassed to ask, but curiosity turned out to be stronger than shyness.

So what is this mysterious disease? How is CHES deciphered?

– CHAZ? The devil knows.

– What did the doctor tell you about the upcoming operation? Faina Georgievna was asked.

- Calmed down. This is his twentieth. It should, in the end, work out.

The doctor, examining Ranevskaya:

- Well, my dear, sleep well? Are you having nightmares?

“I've had enough of daytime nightmares, Doctor.

Doctors can't stand him, he is hopelessly healthy.

- Faina Georgievna, what means for losing weight is better than the rest, can you tell me?

- Envy.

N does not drink free vinegar because he is a diabetic.

Why don't you get plastic surgery? - asked Faina Georgievna one famous actress.

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

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.

“At the hospital, in addition to dealing with my heart attack, the doctors struggled with my insomnia. We started with sleeping pills: various combinations, intervals, quantities - at 19.30 - a tablet of Diphenhydramine, at 20.00 - a Nambutal tablet and half a tablet of Noxiron, at 21.00 - Noxiron and Melinal, etc. No effect. One morning the doctor's lady comes in with an enlightened face full of hope.

“Well, did you sleep well today?”

- Disgusting! She fell asleep at five or six.

- But, Faina Georgievna, yesterday I gave you a sedative for the violently mad!

- Truth?

- Well, of course.

“What a pity that you didn’t tell me this before: maybe then I would fall asleep ...”

Once Ranevskaya was asked what she thought about baldness.

“Baldness is a slow but sure transformation of the head into an ass,” the actress answered without hesitation. First in form, then in content.

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

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

- Here are your sleeping pills, Faina Georgievna, this will last you for six weeks.

“But doctor, I wouldn’t want to sleep so long!”

“The Kremlin hospital is a nightmare with all the amenities,” the actress wrote in a letter.

This doctor works wonders! - Faina Ranevskaya shared with her friend. “He cured all my illnesses in just a matter of minutes.

– But how? - the friend was surprised.

- The doctor said that all my illnesses are just symptoms of approaching old age.

Once in the hospital, Faina Ranevskaya could not fall asleep. They invited a psychiatrist.

“An elderly man came with a gray halo on his head and kind eyes.

“Relax your muscles,” he asked, “close your eyes, and we will sleep.”

He settled himself comfortably in his chair and began peacefully:

- You are in the field. Green grass, birds chirping softly. Above you is a bottomless blue sky, light clouds, like countless flocks of sheep.

The psychiatrist did his best, he spoke slowly and sincerely, using the well-known style of newspaper features, which made me very amused, but I tried not to show it. The doctor walked through fields and meadows, went into broad-leaved oak forests. His voice was already whispering:

- And there behind the oak forest a lonely stream, quietly murmuring, carries its waters ... Hrrr.

I shuddered: what is it? The psychiatrist was asleep. After fifteen minutes he opened his eyes, looked at me and smiled:

“Well, we slept, well, here’s a good fellow!”

Loneliness, as a condition, cannot be cured.

Faina Ranevskaya talked with her friend about medicine. A friend asked the actress:

- Faina, do you think medicine is making progress?

- And how, - answered Faina Georgievna. - In my youth, I had to undress every time at the doctor, and now it’s enough to show my tongue.

I feel myself, but not well.

What I'm doing? I pretend to be healthy.

Everything hurts at night, and most of all - conscience.

Sclerosis cannot be cured, but it can be forgotten.

After a heart attack:

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

Faina Georgievna Ranevskaya was an avid smoker. Once, while examining her, the doctor asked:

What are you breathing, my dear?

“Pushkin,” she answered.

- Are you sick, Faina Georgievna?

No, I just look like that.

The doctor who treated Ranevskaya recalled how his patient brought urine for analysis in a thermos.

- But why in a thermos, and not in a jar? The doctor rolled his eyes.

“Oh, damn it,” the actress grumbled displeasedly. - And who said: "bring warm"?

One of the actors called Ranevskaya to inquire about his health.

“My dear,” she complained, “such a nightmare! My head hurts, my teeth go to hell, my heart aches, I cough terribly, my liver, kidneys, stomach - everything aches! Joints break. I can barely walk... Thank God I'm not a man, otherwise it would be the prostate gland.

The actress, who served at the Moscow City Council Theater, complained that her husband snores unbearably.

- It's just impossible! Tried everything, nothing helps. Is there really no reliable remedy for snoring?

“Yes,” Ranevskaya encouraged her colleague. - Insomnia.

A friend of Faina Georgievna complained that she needed to get an appointment with an ophthalmologist, but there were such queues that she couldn’t get through.

Why do you need an optometrist? the actress exclaimed.

Well, check your eyesight.

Famous and popular Soviet theater and film actress. Today, many critics and journalists consider her one of the greatest Russian actresses of the 20th century. She has about 30 films and countless performances to her credit. In 1992, the English encyclopedia "Who's Who" included her in the list of the ten most outstanding actresses of the 20th century.
But there is another distinguishing feature by which the actress was remembered by millions - these are the sayings, quotes and aphorisms of Ranevskaya. They instantly became winged and dispersed throughout the country and beyond. And even many years after years, after she was gone, these words do not lose their relevance!

We present you the best phrases and quotes by Faina Ranevskaya. There are more than a hundred of them:
1. I do not know how to express strong feelings, although I can express myself strongly.
2. Family replaces everything. Therefore, before starting it, you should think about what is more important to you: everything or family.
3. I noticed that if you do not eat bread, sugar, fatty meat, do not drink beer with fish, the muzzle becomes smaller, but sadder.
4. 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.
5. Ladies, don't lose weight. Do you need it? It’s better to be a ruddy donut in old age than a dried monkey!
6. Loneliness is when there is a telephone in the house, and the alarm clock rings.
7. All my life I have swum in the toilet with a butterfly stroke.
8. The soul is not an ass, it cannot shit.
9. In old age, the main thing is a sense of dignity, but I was deprived of it.
10. I was smart enough to live my life stupidly. I live only by myself - what self-restraint.
11. We were accustomed to single-celled words, scanty thoughts, play Ostrovsky after that!
12. On an empty stomach, a Russian person does not want to do anything and think, but on a full stomach, he cannot.
13. If the patient really wants to live, doctors are powerless.
14. It is very difficult to be a genius among boogers.
15. Horseradish, put on the opinions of others, provides a calm and happy life.

16. 85 years old with diabetes is not sugar.
17. I wish I had her legs - she had lovely legs! Too bad they're gone now.
18. 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.
19. Tolstoy said that there is no death, but there is love and memory of the heart. The memory of the heart is so painful, it would be better if it did not exist ... It would be better to kill the memory forever.
20. Let idiots and clowns out of your life. The circus must tour.
21. Companion of glory - loneliness.
22. Getting old is boring, but it's the only way to live long.
23. Nothing but despair from the inability to change anything in my destiny.
24. Underneath the most beautiful peacock tail is the most common chicken ass. So less pathos, gentlemen.
25. I hate when bl @ d pretends to be innocence!
26. Do you understand my shallow thought?
27. You need to live in such a way that you are remembered even by bastards.
28. Who would know my loneliness? Damn him, this same talent that made me unhappy ...
29. All my life I have been terribly afraid of stupid people. Especially grandma. You never know how to talk to them without falling to their level.
30. Understand once and for all that the character of your woman is a reflection of your attitude towards her. For the dumb: it's not her bitch, it's you asshole.

31. I am like eggs: I participate, but I do not enter.
32. I hate cynicism for its public accessibility.
33. Why are all fools such women?
34. Eating alone is as unnatural as shitting together!
35. So that we can see how much we overeat, our stomach is located on the same side as the eyes.
36. Talent is like a wart - you either have it or you don't.
37. What kind of world? How many idiots around, how fun they are!
38. It has always been incomprehensible to me - people are ashamed of poverty and not ashamed of wealth.
39. A woman, in order to succeed in life, must have two qualities. She must be smart enough to please stupid men, and 40. stupid enough to please smart men.
41. If a woman tells a man that he is the smartest, then she understands that she will not find another such fool.
42. God made women beautiful so that men could love them, and stupid so that they could love men.
43. Life passes and does not bow like an angry neighbor.
44. Pioneers, go to hell.
45. Many complain about their appearance, and no one complains about their brains.

46. Terribly sad my life ... and you want me to stick a lilac bush in my ass and do a striptease in front of you!
47. God seems to love the sufferers. Have you ever seen a happy genius? No, everyone was ruffled by life, like a blade of grass in the wind. Happiness is a concept for average citizens in all respects, and there is no justice here.
48. Loneliness as a condition is not treatable.
49. Animals, which are few, were listed in the Red Book, and which are many - in the Book of Tasty and Healthy Food.
50. There are two, at most three thoughts in my old head, but at times they raise such a fuss that it seems there are thousands of them.
51. 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.
52. 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.
53. Success is the only unforgivable sin in relation to your loved one.
54. Life is a long jump from n * zdy to the grave.
55. Making a bad movie is like spitting into eternity!
56. Honey, if you want to lose weight, eat naked and in front of a mirror.
57. There is such love that it is better to immediately replace it with execution.
58. For a number of reasons, I cannot now answer you in the words you use. But I sincerely hope that when you return home, your mother will jump out of the gateway and bite you properly.
59. I'm like an old palm tree at the station - no one needs it, but it's a pity to throw it away.
60. No one, except for dead leaders, wants to endure my idly dangling breasts.

61. I spoke for a long time and unconvincingly, as if I were talking about the friendship of peoples.
62. Women are not the weaker sex, the weaker sex is rotten boards.
63. For an actress, there are no disadvantages if it is necessary for the role.
64. If I often looked into the eyes of Gioconda, I would go crazy: she knows everything about me, and I know nothing about her.
65. I can't eat meat. It walked, loved, looked ... Maybe I'm a psychopath? No, I consider myself a normal psychopath. But I can't eat meat. I keep meat for people.
66. The second half is in the brain, ass and pills. And I am whole.
67. A child from the first grade of school should be taught the science of loneliness.
68. Loneliness is a state about which there is no one to tell.
69. When I start writing memoirs, beyond the phrase: “I was born in the family of a poor oilman ...”, - I can’t do anything.
70. Spelling errors in a letter are like a bug on a white blouse.
71. Sclerosis cannot be cured, but it can be forgotten.
72. Thoughts are drawn to the beginning of life, which means that life is coming to an end.
73. To get recognition - it is necessary, even necessary, to die.
74. Lesbianism, homosexuality, masochism, sadism are not perversions. There are, in fact, only two perversions: field hockey and ballet on ice.
75. Beautiful people shit too.

76. There are people who just want to approach and ask if it is difficult to live without brains.
77. Now I looked at the photo for a long time - the eyes of the dog are surprisingly humane. I love them, they are smart and kind, but people make them evil.
78. My God, how old I am - I still remember decent people!
79. Women die later than men because they are always late.
80. I do not recognize the word "play". You can play cards, horse races, checkers. You have to live on the stage.
81. I'm tired of pretending to be healthy.
82. Do you know, honey, what is shit? So it is in comparison with my life - jam.
83. They haven't told me for a long time that I'm fucking. Losing popularity.
84. Everything pleasant in this world is either harmful, or immoral, or leads to obesity.
85. Life is too short to spend it on diets, greedy men and bad moods.
86. The main thing is to live a living life, and not to fumble through the back streets of memory.
87. My God, an unfortunate country where a person cannot dispose of his ass.
88. Men from the beginning of days to their end are drawn for a boob.
89. I hate you. Wherever I go, everyone looks around and says: “Look, this is Mulya, don’t annoy me, she’s coming.”
90. You can't fart happily with a sad ass.

91. Everyone is free to dispose of his ass as he wants. So I pick mine up and fuck.
92. There are no fat women, there are small clothes.
93. When I die, bury me and write on the monument: "Died of disgust."
94. Either I'm getting old and stupid, or today's youth is not like anything! Before, I just didn’t know how to answer their questions, and now I don’t even understand what they are asking about.
95. I don't get along with life! Money interferes with me both when it is not there and when it is.
96. I receive letters: "Help me become an actor." I answer: "God will help!".
97. Cinema is a barefoot establishment.
98. How I envy the brainless!
99. Old age is the time when candles on a birthday cake cost more than the cake itself, and half of the urine goes to tests.
100. There are a million fans, but there is no one to go to the pharmacy.
101. There are people in whom God lives; There are people in whom the devil lives; And there are people that live only worms.
102. When a jumper's legs hurt, she jumps while sitting.
103. Women are, of course, smarter. Have you ever heard of a woman who would lose her head just because a man has beautiful legs?
104. Pee-wee in a tram - all he did in art.
105. I feel myself, but badly.
106. Health is when you have pain in a different place every day.
107. He has a voice - as if pissing in a zinc bucket.
108. Talent is self-doubt and painful dissatisfaction with yourself and your shortcomings, which I have never seen in mediocrity.
109. I'm watching this film for the fourth time and I must tell you that today the actors played like never before.
110. I am a provincial actress. Wherever I served! Only in the city of Vezdesransk did not serve! ..
111. If you have a person to whom you can tell dreams, you have no right to consider yourself lonely ...
112. Cursed nineteenth century, cursed upbringing: I can't stand when men are sitting.
113. Oh, those obnoxious journalists! Half of the lies they spread about me are not true.
114. People are like candles: they either burn or fuck them up.
115. Let it be a little gossip that should disappear between us.
116. He will die from the expansion of fantasy.
117. I lived with many theaters, but never enjoyed it.
118. Life is a short walk before eternal sleep.
119. Old age is not bad dreams, but bad reality.
120. It is better to be a good person, "swearing" than a quiet, well-mannered creature.

121. I am already so old that I began to forget my own memoirs.
122. In the theater, talented people loved me, mediocre people hated me, mongrels bit me and tore me to pieces.
123. March 8 is my personal disaster. With each postcard in flowers and bows, I pull out a tuft of hair from grief that I was not born a man.
124. Everything will come true, one has only to lose desire ...
125. Do not have a hundred rubles, but have two breasts!
126. Old age is just disgusting. I believe that this is the ignorance of God when he allows you to live to old age. Lord, everyone is already gone, but I still live. Birman - and she died, and I did not expect this from her. 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!
127. A person's passport is his misfortune, because a person must always be eighteen, and a passport only reminds you that you can live like an eighteen year old.
128. The union of a stupid man and a stupid woman creates 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.

The roles of F. Ranevskaya in the cinema

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

I understood what my misfortune was: rather a poet, a home-grown philosopher, a “everyday” fool - I don’t get along with life! Money interferes both when it is not there and when it is. I buy things to give away. I wear old clothes, always unsuccessful. Freak me.

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

Ranevskaya was asked for something and added:
- You are a kind person, you will not refuse.
- There are two people in me, - Faina Georgievna answered. - The good one cannot refuse, but the second one can. Today the second one is on duty.

Well, Faina Georgievna, why didn't you like the ending of my last play?
- It's too far from the start.

I wrote the book for 3 years, after reading it, I tore it up. Books should be written by writers, thinkers or gossips.

This is not a theater, but a country toilet. I go to the current theater the way I went to have an abortion in my youth, and to pull my teeth in my old age. After all, you know, as if Stanislavsky was not born. They wonder why I play differently every time.

My friend Boruch Farber, a photographer, said: “Girls, when you take pictures, you should say “cheese” and not “iron”!

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

I often think that people who seek and strive for fame do not understand that in the so-called "glory" nests the very loneliness that any cleaner in the theater does not know. This happens because a person who is famous is considered happy, satisfied, but in reality the opposite is true. The love of the viewer carries some kind of cruelty ... Once after the performance, when I was forced to play "at the request of the public" very sick, I once and for all hated "my fame."

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

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

What will I see you wearing next?
- In the coffin, - suggested Ranevskaya.

Many receive awards not by ability, but by need.

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

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

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

Perpetum male (About director Z.)

Loneliness is a condition that cannot be cured.

I don't drink, I don't smoke anymore and I never cheated on my husband - because I never had one.
“So what do you mean, you don’t have any flaws at all?”
- In general, no. True, I have a big ass and sometimes I lie a little ...

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In everything! - It's about amazing Faina Georgievna Ranevskaya!

*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.

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*Such an ass is called an ass toy.

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*What, in your opinion, women tend to be more fidelity - brunettes or blondes?
Without hesitation, she replied: “Gray-haired!”

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

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* The pressure of beauty can not hold back anything! (Looking at the hole in her skirt)

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*Kritikessy - Amazons in menopause.

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*When the jumper's legs hurt, she jumps while sitting.

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* With such an ass, you should stay at home!

About health:

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

*What I'm doing? I pretend to be healthy.

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* I feel bad.

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

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

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*Sclerosis cannot be cured, but it can be forgotten.

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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.

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

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

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Thoughts are drawn to the beginning of life - it means that 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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Getting old is boring, but it's the only way to live long.

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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.

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About work:

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

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Making a bad movie is like spitting into eternity.

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

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I am Stanislavsky's miscarriage.

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

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

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I lived with many theaters, but never enjoyed it.

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

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

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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)

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

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

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

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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 and life:

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

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I am a social psychopath. Komsomol girl with an oar. You can feel me in the subway. It's me standing there, half bowed, in a bathing cap and copper shorts, into which all the Octobrists strive to climb. I work in the metro as a sculpture. I was polished by so many paws that even the great prostitute Nana could envy me.

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Companion of glory - loneliness.

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

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I was smart enough to live my life stupidly.

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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.

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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.

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Loneliness is a condition that cannot be cured.

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

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Life passes and does not bow like an angry neighbor.

On various topics:

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

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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.

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

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

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

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I don't see faces, but personal insults.

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

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

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Do you understand my shallow thought?

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

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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.

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

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

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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?”

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

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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 men are a dime a dozen.

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How many times does a woman blush in her life? - Four times: on the wedding night, when she cheats on her husband for the first time, when she takes money for the first time, when she gives money for the first time.
And the man?

Twice: the first time - when the second cannot, the second - when the first cannot.

Ranevskaya with all her 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 stupid, - Ranevskaya sighs. - The fact is that I left all the tickets on the piano.

Once Yuri Zavadsky, artistic director of the Theater. The Moscow City Council, where Faina Georgievna Ranevskaya worked (and with whom she had a far from cloudless relationship), shouted in the heat of the actress: “Faina Georgievna, you gobbled up all my directorial idea with your game!” “I feel like I ate shit!” - retorted Ranevskaya.

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

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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 in the words that 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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Actors discuss at a troupe meeting of 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.