Author of quotes: Alexander Anatolyevich Shirvindt

The most important thing at any age is to be yourself. Be angry if you want to be angry, enraged by injustice and despair. And don’t walk around with a smile from ear to ear, like a blessed person. The only thing worse can be indifference and a fake smile.

I think I'm tired of being kind. Over the years, I want peace. Oddly enough, with age, what once had value or importance becomes something else. I want peace of mind, friends who are not eaten up by envy, health, so I can drink a glass, and not be judged for small sins... It’s a shame that nowadays kindness is mistaken for weakness and they take advantage of it and hurt. It's a pity.

When you sincerely love what you have, there is no desire to change anything. There is no agony of choice because the choice has already been made. Once and for all.

The feeling of happiness comes at the moment of the assumption of what might happen, and not at the moment of the fact of what happened.

Few people understand that Russia is not birches, after all... Russia, first of all, is a people. And if someone left, and the people remained, then there is not a single decent word for such a fugitive. And those who insult the people of Russia with such words as Makarevich are worthy of these words.

You don't need to take everyone by the handle. And not everyone should be given a pen in their hands either.

Career is a measure of vanity, and my vanity is metered by the need not to fall out of the cage of worthy people.

Theater is a bunch of crazy, fanatical, hysterical, sweet, touching, naive and mostly unhappy people with an accidentally happy fate.

We adore common expressions that somehow become truths. "If a person is talented, then he is talented in everything." Rave. I know a few geniuses who are incapable of driving a nail or boiling an egg.

I'm in good shape. The content is getting worse and worse.

Old age is hopeless and unprofitable. The meaning of living is to justify fate.

And you don't even need to play Vysotsky, Katchalov or Smoktunovsky. We need to play Chatsky, Mephistopheles and Othello, and we must try to become the Kachalovs and Smoktunovskys.

On stage, you cannot replay a child, a cat and a dog - they are organic, naive and sincere.

Rights and obligations! The more a population demands rights, the more severely it is reminded of its responsibilities.