Lionel Barrymore Quotes

• The older you get, the more you realize that kindness is synonymous with happiness

  Lionel Barrymore

  Inspirational, Positive, Kindness

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• Lincoln said, 'With malice toward none, with charity to all.' Nowadays they say, 'Think the way I do or I'll bomb the daylights outta you.'

  Lionel Barrymore

  Thinking, Bombs, Charity

  "Fictional character: Martin Vanderhof". "You Can't Take It with You", www.imdb.com. 1938.

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• To my mind there is nothing so beautiful or so provocative as a secondhand book store...To me it is astonishing and miraculous to think that any one of us can poke among the stalls for something to read overnight--and that this something may be the sum of a lifetime of sweat, tears, and genius that some poor, struggling, blessed fellow expended trying to teach us the truth.

  Lionel Barrymore

  Beautiful, Struggle, Book

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• For the first time in my life, I have tasted life. Life is wonderful but very dangerous. If you have the courage to live it - it's marvelous!

  Lionel Barrymore

  Meaningful, Firsts, Life Is

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• I can remember when nobody believed an actor and didn't care what he believed.

  Lionel Barrymore

  Actors, Care, Remember

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Half the people in Hollywood are dying to be discovered and the other half are afraid they will be.

  Lionel Barrymore

  Funny, People, Dying

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• If a man doesn't know death, he doesn't know life.

  Lionel Barrymore

  Death, Men, Dying

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• This is the age of insincerity. The movies had the misfortune to come along in the twentieth century, and because they appeal to the masses there can be no sincerity in them.

  Lionel Barrymore

  Age, Sincerity, Century

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Maybe it'll stop you trying to be so desperate about making more money than you can ever use? You can't take it with you, Mr. Kirby. So what good is it? As near as I can see, the only thing you can take with you is the love of your friends.

  Lionel Barrymore

  Trying, Use, Desperate

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• I've played everything but the harp.

  Lionel Barrymore

  Death, Suicide, Harps

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• I've got a lot of ham in me.

  Lionel Barrymore

  Ham

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Hollywood is tied hand and foot to the demands for artificiality of the masses all over the world.

  Lionel Barrymore

  Hands, Feet, Hollywood

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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