27 August 1896 year
Fanny Feldman, an actress, was born in Taganrog into a wealthy Jewish family. Faina RanevskayaQueen of quotes.
If I were to give in to requests and write about myself, it would be a plaintive book called “Fate is a Whore.”
My God, I'm so old – I still remember decent people.
I became interested in the stage at 14 and went to a private studio.
At 19, she left for Moscow, but she couldn't get into the big theaters—she had a stutter since childhood. She started out in the provinces and toured with a troupe in Kerch. She played prostitutes and "coquette-like heroines with singing and dancing for 35 rubles, even with her own wardrobe."
Beauty is a terrible force
Optimism is a lack of information
After the revolution, her parents emigrated to Prague, but Faina stayed behind to try to break into the capital's theaters. She had a fiery temper and often argued with directors.
I slept with all the theaters in Moscow, but I didn’t get satisfaction from anyone.
At 43, she played Lyalya in the comedy "Foundling," where she uttered the catchphrase, "Mulya, don't make me nervous!" This is what she was called for the rest of her life—even by Brezhnev when he presented her with the Order of Lenin.
Her voice is used by Miss Bock in the cartoon about Carlson.
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.
When KGB officers tried to recruit her, she turned it all into a joke.
Exposing the machinations of the imperialist scum I hate... You could say it's been my childhood dream. There's just one small "but"! First, I live in a communal apartment, and second, I talk loudly in my sleep.
In the early 50s, she agreed to star in the pretentious and boring play "Storm": she created for herself the role of the Speculator, interrogated by the commissar. Audiences flocked to see Ranevskaya. And as soon as her scene ended, the theater emptied. Eventually, the director removed her from the play, and people stopped coming altogether.
Getting old is boring, but it's the only way to live long.
She died in 1984 after a heart attack and pneumonia.
One of her catchphrases is engraved on the granite pedestal: "Everything will come true, you just have to stop wanting it.".
