Quotes by Ethel Barrymore

Ethel Barrymore

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

Age

Good Life

Play

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

Hollywood

Looks

Men

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.

Differences

Music

Piano

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

Dare

Whooping Cough

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

Dying

Happiness

Want

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.

Achievement

Past

Track

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.

Art

Generations

Understanding

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

Friendship

Funny Best Friend

True Friend

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

Acting

Events

Ideas

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

Acting

Actors

Theater

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Quotes by Ethel Barrymore

Ethel Barrymore

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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