More - Ethel Barrymore Quotes

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

Ethel Barrymore

 Character Funny Motivational

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

Ethel Barrymore

 American Actress

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

 American Actress

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

Ethel Barrymore

 American Actress

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

 American Actress

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

 Failure

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

Ethel Barrymore

 American Actress

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

Ethel Barrymore

 American Actress

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

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

Ethel Barrymore

 American Actress Friends Or Friendship Funny