can't the first time. A real man is the one who remembers your birthday and also does not remember your age. Those obnoxious journalists! Half the lies they tell about me aren't even true! Damn nineteenth century upbringing: I can't stand up when men are sitting. Nowadays when someone shies away from saying that they don't want to die, they say: "I want to live to see what happens next". As if, if not for that, they'd be all for dying. (Said in late 1970s) It's dreadful when you are eighteen inside, when beautiful music, poetry, art delights you ... and they say it's your time, and you haven't even done anything, and you feel like beginning to live! "Homosexuality is not a perversion. Perversions are field hockey or ice ballet." References External links Website about Faina Ranevskaya 1896 births 1984 deaths 20th-century Russian actresses Actors from Taganrog People from Don Host Oblast Aphorists Jewish Russian comedians Honored Artists of the RSFSR People's Artists of the RSFSR People's Artists of the USSR Stalin Prize winners Recipients of the Order of Lenin Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour Jewish actresses Russian film actresses Russian stage actresses Soviet film actresses Soviet Jews Soviet stage actresses Burials at Donskoye Cemetery Jewish Russian actors