Ethel Barrymore Quotes

• 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, Get Up

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

  Ethel Barrymore

  Friendship, True Friend, Funny Best Friend

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

  Ethel Barrymore

  Inspirational, Life, Happy Birthday

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• 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

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• 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

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• [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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• You must learn, day by day, year by year, to broaden your horizon.

  Ethel Barrymore

  Years, Advice, New Horizons

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• Is everybody happy? I want everybody to be happy. I know I'm happy.

  Ethel Barrymore

  Happiness, Dying, Want

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Ethel Barrymore

  Acting, Actors, Theater

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• 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

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• 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

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

  Ethel Barrymore

  Whooping Cough, Dare

  1956 Of her audiences. In the New York Post, 7 Jun.

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• [on Hollywood] It looks, it feels, as though it had been invented by a Sixth Avenue peepshow man.

  Ethel Barrymore

  Men, Hollywood, Looks

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

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

  Ethel Barrymore

  Ideas, Acting, Events

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