Ethel Barrymore Quotes

• I never let them cough. They wouldn’t dare.

  Ethel Barrymore

  Topics in Uncategorized

• For an actress to be a success she must have the face of Venus, the brains of Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of  Macaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros.

  Ethel Barrymore

  Topics in Uncategorized

• The people are unreal. The flowers are unreal, they don’t smell. The fruit is unreal, it doesn’t taste of anything. The whole place is a glaring, gaudy, nightmarish set, built upon the desert.

  Ethel Barrymore

  Topics in Ambition

• The best time to make friends is before you need them.

  Ethel Barrymore

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Time, Make, Friends

• The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure – if you don’t like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don’t like it, you don’t understand and you ought to find out.

  Ethel Barrymore

  Topics in Art

  Tags in Artist

• I never let them cough. They wouldn’t dare.

  Ethel Barrymore

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self

• Fundamentally I feel that there is as much difference between the stage and the films as between a piano and a violin. Normally you can’t become a virtuoso in both.

  Ethel Barrymore

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self, Feel

• The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage.

  Ethel Barrymore

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Great, Actors

• When life knocks you to your knees, and it will, why, get up! If it knocks you to your knees again, as it will, well, isn’t that the best position from which to pray?

  Ethel Barrymore

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Question

• You grow up the day you have your first real laugh at yourself.

  Ethel Barrymore

  Topics in Humor

  Tags in Maturity

• You must learn day by day, year by year, to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens.

  Ethel Barrymore

  Topics in Education, Experience

• The face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn an Event.

  Ethel Barrymore

• For an actress to be a success she must have the face of Venus, the brains of Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of Macaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros

  Ethel Barrymore

  Topics in Success

  Tags in Actors And Acting

• Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping.

  Ethel Barrymore

  Topics in Achievement

Ethel Barrymore (14)

Birth:	15th August, 1879
Death:	18th June, 1959
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actress

About

Ethel Barrymore was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. She was an American actress. She appeared in her first motion picture, The Nightingale in 1914. She appeared in the Academy Award nominated film Pinky, for which she was awarded an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress. Her role in several films include: None but the Lonely Heart, Rasputin and the Empress, The Story of Three Loves, Kind Lady, The Spiral Staircase, Portrait of Jennie, and Johnny Trouble.

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