Ethel Barrymore Quotes

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• You grow up the day you have the first real laugh at yourself.
• 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,…
• 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…
• The face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn an Event.
• 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,…
• 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…
• Is everybody happy? I want everybody to be happy. I know I'm happy.
• I never let them cough. They wouldn't dare.
• 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…
• The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage.
• 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…
• The best time to make friends is before you need them.
• For an actress to be a success she must have the face of Venus, the brains of Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of…
• That's all there is; there isn't any more.
• You grow up the day you have your first real laugh -- at yourself.

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