Author of quotes: Vasily Livanov

Cinema is a mystical art. Some colored shadows run in front of you on the sheet, and you believe them. This contains something inaccessible to us, subconscious, some element of mysticism. I thought that if we were playing two close friends, then we had to be close friends, and then it would come to the screen. On the screen, you can show love with a touch, a look, but how to play friendship? No way.

My unusual voice timbre came from my baritone, quite by accident, my unique timbre is like winning a million on a trivij ticket. Once he heard the directors forgot about my character and invited me to great roles.

There are no small parts, just small actors. It's all the little known actors.

Here the person of Ivan Ivanovich took the senseless, almost idiotic expression. The expression that becomes the face of the Russian people, regardless of age, occupation and position, if the boss suddenly asks: where did administered the person theft of government property. And so what this property: the screenplay, washable Wallpaper, caterpillar tractor, Bank of cod in tomato sauce, paper clip - it is absolutely still. Because the country is vast, space is vast, grasslands, mountains, forests and the sea, people everywhere, and to be completely can do anything, anytime, anywhere.

Do we already came to such a catastrophe that honesty is the merit?

One day, speaking at the Ministry of culture before members of the Board, among whom were Livanov, Minister Furtseva was developing his favorite idea about the organization wherever possible, "Amateur", and agreed to the fact that, in her opinion, "the initiative should soon displace the professional art".
- Boris Nikolaevich, - interrupting a speech, she went to Livanov. I see you drawing something in a notebook and not listening to me? You disagree with me?
- I listen, - said Livanov. - You rejoice in the fact that professional art will soon disappear, and I am a professional. Here you would, Catherine, began to use the services of an Amateur gynecologist?
The discussion ended in a Homeric laughter of all present.

To go to a restaurant I couldn't. As my neighbor in the Dorm: "secondly, I have no money".

And the first role, which I received in the theatre was... the role of the corpse of the son of the heroine in a one-act play by Brecht.

The special situation of this literary character in the world of clever people have identified well-known American actor and Director Orson Welles: "Sherlock Holmes is a man that never lived but will never die."

In recent years at the Moscow art Theater "old men" among themselves hardly spoke. Sometimes, sitting in the backstage intermission in the lobby of the theater, in conclusion, the costumes, silent and I think each of his.
And suddenly one of the "old men" to anybody personally without turning, begins to talk out loud:
- What do I have? I - people's artist of the Soviet Union, member of the party... a decorated... always busy in the repertoire. I didn't have? I have a beautiful five-room apartment in the heart of... cottage, very good... Two of the state prize... Yes... I'm a Director... I have my own theatre, where I art Director I... at state of the car carry... and I have my own car... Volga... To health, FIE-FIE, do not complain. Well, I didn't have?
In the hanging silence the voice of Boris:
- You have no conscience.

- You married? There are the kids?
- Is. [Sinitsyn anxiously frowned.] Four. Three girls, the other five boys. And all, of course, the twins.

Want the Motherland to treat bloody poultices? Only the executioners is a bad doctor...

Nothing older than years.

Optimism is lack of awareness.