Ethel Barrymore famous quotes

03-23-2025

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

#Knees #Praying #Wells
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
-- Ethel Barrymore

#Friendship #Needs
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

#Art #Understanding #Generations
You grow up the day you have the first real laugh at yourself.
-- Ethel Barrymore

#Inspirational #Life #Happy Birthday
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

#Inspirational #Education #Memorable
The face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn an Event.
-- Ethel Barrymore

#Ideas #Acting #Events
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

#Music #Piano #Differences
Is everybody happy? I want everybody to be happy. I know I'm happy.
-- Ethel Barrymore

#Dying #Want #Last Words
I never let them cough. They wouldn't dare.
-- Ethel Barrymore

#Dare
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

#Past #Track #Achievement
The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage.
-- Ethel Barrymore

#Acting #Actors #Theater
[On Hollywood:] It looks, it feels, as though it had been invented by a Sixth Avenue peepshow man.
-- Ethel Barrymore

#Men #Hollywood #Looks
[At age 76:] A good life is like a good play -- it has to have a satisfying and exciting third act.
-- Ethel Barrymore

#Good Life #Play #Age

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