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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
[on Hollywood] It looks, it feels, as though it had been invented by a Sixth Avenue peepshow man. — Ethel Barrymore Copy Share Image
The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage. — Ethel Barrymore Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Is everybody happy? I want everybody to be happy. I know I'm happy. — Ethel Barrymore Copy Share Image
[At age 76:] A good life is like a good play -- it has to have a satisfying and exciting third act. — Ethel Barrymore Copy Share Image
You grow up the day you have your first real laugh -- at yourself. — Ethel Barrymore Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image