Ethel Barrymore Quotes

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

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, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens.

Ethel Barrymore

When life knocks you to your knees, which it always does and always will—well, that's the best position in which to pray, isn't it?

Ethel Barrymore

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 memory of a Macaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros.

Ethel Barrymore

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 become a virtuoso in both.

Ethel Barrymore

Ethel Barrymore

Ethel Barrymore

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Born: August 15, 1879

Died: June 18, 1959 (aged 79)

Bio: Ethel Barrymore was an American actress and a member of the Barrymore family of actors. Regarded as the "First Lady of the American Theater", Barrymore was a preeminent stage actress in her era. Barrymore's career spanned six decades.

Known for:

None but the Lonely Heart (1944)
The Spiral Staircase (1945)
Rasputin and the Empress (1932)
Portrait of Jennie (1948)
The Paradine Case (1947)

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