Faina Ranevskaya was born in 1896 in the family of a wealthy Jew, Hirsch Feldman - the owner of a factory, a ship, several houses and shops. Since childhood, the girl stuttered slightly, so her peers constantly touched her. Because of this, she decided to leave the gymnasium and was educated at home.
She really loved Russian classics, especially Chekhov. By the way, she borrowed her stage name “Ranevskaya” from the great classic. If you remember, that’s the name of the heroine of Chekhov from the play “The Cherry Orchard”. As for the choice of profession, then, as Faina Girshievna claimed, she did not choose her, because she “lurked” in her. She possessed a sharpness of mind and language, subtle humor, free outlook on life. That's what the great Faina Ranevskaya was for contemporaries.
The catchphrases that we often repeat today contain a deep meaning. They are so marked, fair and consistent with today's reality that sometimes you are simply surprised that their author is a woman born in the 19th century.
The catchphrases of Faina Ranevskaya
When Ranevskaya worked at the Mossovet Theater, she had problems with the leader, Yuri Zavadsky. She often mocked him, could put him in his place even in front of the whole collective, and many sharp words and expressions of Faina Ranevskaya arose precisely because of this conflict.
One of her most accurate phrases gives an explanation of her whole life: “What is playing on stage? You can play checkers, cards, hide and seek. You have to live on stage! ” Yes, she was one of the most truthful actresses of the Soviet screen, despite the fact that she never managed to fully realize herself as an actress. Perhaps, due to her unusual appearance and specific timbre, her voice was not given the roles she wanted to play. However, even those small images that she created on the stage or in front of the movie camera were forever remembered by the viewer. The most interesting thing is that today's young generation, which does not know the actress, who played on the stage under the pseudonym Faina Ranevskaya, knows the catchphrases that belong to her. Here are some of them:
- “Life must be lived so that even you bastards remember you.”
- “You know, when I first saw this bald man on an armored car, I immediately thought: very big troubles ahead of us.” (So she put it about Vladimir Lenin.)
- But this one, surely, many women like to repeat: “Life is very short in order to spend it on some diets, greedy men and a bad mood.”
- “In life there are people whom one wants to approach and ask: is it difficult to live without brains?”
Probably, many thought: "Ay, yes Faina Ranevskaya!" The catch phrases invented by her are simply priceless! For example, this one: “Optimism is simply a lack of information.” Having comprehended the essence of what was said, one is simply amazed at the depth of its meaning.
Faina Ranevskaya: catchphrases about women
The actress has a great many sticky aphorisms about women. Surely, many have heard this:
“If a woman walks with her head bowed, then she has a lover. If a woman proudly steps with her head raised, then she definitely has a lover. If a woman walks and keeps her head straight, then she has a lover. And in general, if a woman has a head, then she certainly has a lover! ”
Or this one: “If you want to lose weight, then eat naked and in front of the mirror!”
But this is more of a joke than a catch phrase:
- Today I killed 5 flies. Of these, two were males, and three were females.
“And how did you manage to determine this?”
- Easy! Two sat on a beer bottle, and three sat on the mirrors.
About loneliness
Faina Ranevskaya was never married and had no children. In old age, she acutely felt loneliness, and some phrases of her about this condition.
- “Loneliness is a state that there is no one to tell about.”
- Or: “Loneliness is when, when there is a telephone in the house, only the alarm rings.”
Faina Ranevskaya, the great Russian actress, died in 1984 at the age of 88, leaving behind a large collection of aphorisms and films with her participation.