Laugh at yourself Quotes by Ethel Barrymore

You must learn day by day, year by year to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in,…

— Ethel Barrymore

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

— Ethel Barrymore

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

— Ethel Barrymore

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

— Ethel Barrymore

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

— Ethel Barrymore

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

— Ethel Barrymore

Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past…

— Ethel Barrymore

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

— Ethel Barrymore

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

— Ethel Barrymore

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

— Ethel Barrymore

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

— Ethel Barrymore

“The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you…

— Ethel Barrymore