"The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure -……" — Ethel Barrymore
"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."
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Ethel Barrymore
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15 Quotes by Ethel Barrymore
Ethel Barrymore has 15 quotes on this site.
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You grow up the day you have the first real laugh at yourself.
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Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend…
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You must learn day by day, year by year to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more…
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The face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn an Event.
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When life knocks you to your knees, and it will, why, get up! If it knocks you to your knees…
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Fundamentally I feel that there is as much difference between the stage and the films as between a piano and…
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Is everybody happy? I want everybody to be happy. I know I'm happy.
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I never let them cough. They wouldn't dare.
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The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage.
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For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of a Venus, the brains of a Minerva,…
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The best time to make friends is before you need them.
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For an actress to be a success she must have the face of Venus, the brains of Minerva, the grace…
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