Years 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