The best time to make friends is before you need them. Ethel Barrymore More Quotes by Ethel Barrymore More Quotes From Ethel Barrymore 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 kneesget-uppraying The best time to make friends is Ethel Barrymore funny-best-friendtrue-friendfriendship [At age 76:] A good life is like a good play -- it has to have a satisfying and exciting third act. Ethel Barrymore good-lifeageplay 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 memorableeducationinspirational Is everybody happy? I want everybody to be happy. I know I'm happy. Ethel Barrymore dyingwanthappiness You must learn, day by day, year by year, to broaden your horizon. Ethel Barrymore new-horizonsadviceyears 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 generationsunderstandingart You grow up the day you have the first real laugh at yourself. Ethel Barrymore happy-birthdayinspirationallife 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 pianodifferencesmusic The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage. Ethel Barrymore theateractorsacting [on Hollywood] It looks, it feels, as though it had been invented by a Sixth Avenue peepshow man. Ethel Barrymore hollywoodmenlooks 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 achievementtrackpast The face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn an Event. Ethel Barrymore eventsactingideas I never let them cough. They wouldn't dare. Ethel Barrymore whooping-coughdare For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of a Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a MaCaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros. Ethel Barrymore You grow up the day you have your first real laugh at yourself. Ethel Barrymore That's all there is; there isn't any more. Ethel Barrymore anymore
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