Ethel Barrymore (born Ethel Mae Blythe; August 15, 1879 – June 18, 1959) was an American actress and a member of the Barrymore family of actors. Read full biography of Ethel Barrymore →
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
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... →
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... →
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... →
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... →
The face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn an Event.
The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage.
That's all there is; there isn't any more.
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... →
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 you don't... →
Ethel Barrymore (born Ethel Mae Blythe; August 15, 1879 – June 18, 1959) was an American actress and a member of the Barrymore family of actors.