Ethel Barrymore Quotes

Ethel Barrymore Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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

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

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

That's all there is; there isn't any more.

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

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

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

[At age 76:] A good life is like a good play
it has to have a satisfying and exciting third act.