stage actor, film actor, director, screenwriter, and playwright of the Boulevard theatre
.
Guitry was born in Saint Petersburg
, Russia
, in 1885, the son of the well-known actor Lucien Guitry
. Sacha was first on stage at age five. He developed a charming, witty stage persona, often appearing in period-dress light comedies, for instance his 1925 pastiche
Mozart
, which contains a story about the fictional adventures of Wolfgang Mozart on a visit to Paris.
You can pretend to be serious but you can't pretend to be funny.
He is a cuckold; that's why I cheated on him.
A woman who runs off with her lover does not abandon her husband; she rids him of an unfaithful wife.
When a man steals your wife there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
If women were good, God would have one.
The little I know, I owe it to my ignorance.
When you listen to Mozart, the silence that follows is still Mozart.
Women... Women are lovely, but dogs are so much more loyal.
Women speak until they have something to say.
If women knew how much we missed them, they would leave sooner.