Character: Faina Ranevskaya. Page 2

Ranevskaya asked, how was her relationship with the Director of the play:
- We pretended to love the elephant and the Sparrow.

My dear! To get it all, I need to play at least Chapaev!

- That is you want to say, Faina N. and R. live as husband and wife?
- No. Much better.

I think, what do you think about the Director?
Is discounted, not.

- And where you want to go, my boy, in heaven or hell?
- Of course, Paradise is preferable because of the climate, but more fun I would be in hell - because of the company.

Say that this show has no viewers?
Well, that's an understatement. Yesterday I phoned the box office and asked when the beginning of the show.
- What?
- I replied, "And what were you thinking?"

You heard as unlucky writer N.? - asked Ranevskaya.
- No, what happened to him?
- He fell and broke his right leg.
- Indeed, no luck. What is he going to write?

Once Ranevskaya asked if she was ever in love.
- Yeah, - said Ranevskaya, when I turned nineteen, I joined the provincial troupe and immediately fell in love with the first lover! So handsome he was! And I was terrible as a mortal sin. I his eyes ate, but he paid no attention to me. But one day suddenly came to me and said with his gorgeous baritone voice: "Darling, you're near the theatre room off? So wait for tonight: will you at seven o'clock."
I ran to the entrepreneur, the money in the account payday took, bought wine, food all, dressed, make-up and sit - waiting. Seven-no, eight-no, nine o'clock comes... Drunk and with a woman!
"Darling, - speaks, - take a walk somewhere a couple of hours, my dear!"
Since is not something that you'll love to look at men not can: reptiles and scoundrels!

I grabbed the book, ran into the garden, read the rest. Closed his book. And that ended my childhood. I understand all about lonely people.

Near the "Sistine Madonna" by Raphael stood a lot of people watched on something you said... And suddenly, loudly, as if cleaving his way through the crowd, a voice was indignant:
- No, I don't understand. Standing around, a lot of people. And that crowd?.. What makes her so special?! Barefoot, disheveled...
- Young man, interrupted the monologue Ranevskaya, - this lady has for so long captivated the best minds of humanity that she could choose for herself who she likes and who isn't.

Unhappy I have become in six years. The governess took me to a visitor, "the menagerie". In a small room sat a lean Fox with human eyes. Next on the table was a trough, in it swam two tiny Dolphin. Became a drunken, noisy rabble, and began to poke in the Dolphin eye, which started bleeding. Now I'm 76 years old. All the 70 years I am suffering.

The main thing is to restrain myself, or I, or someone else decided, but it's the truth.

In me there is no shadow of ambition. I'm just running from what chasing my colleagues, but the ego vile torments. But you have to be so proud to not care about feelings.

Epicurus said - well he lived a good hiding.