Ethel Barrymore Quotes

#1. When I moved to New York City in 1965, I wanted to be in theater. I was following my Ethel Barrymore dream. But I was too young to be Ethel.

Bette Midler

#2. I was at dinner with Gene Wilder and imitated Ethel Barrymore for everyone.

Dom DeLuise

#3. Respecting religions is not simply a question of universal tolerance; it is a question of believing that all religions are true.

Narendra Modi

#4. It's the place you would go if you wanted to buy a stereo system for under thirty-five dollars and didn't care if it sounded like the band was playing in a mailbox under water in a distant lake.

Bill Bryson

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

Ethel Barrymore

#6. If you believed in Christianity or Islam it was called 'faith', but if you believed in astrology or friday the thirteenth it was Superstition!

Jostein Gaarder

#7. The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage.

Ethel Barrymore

#8. So she viewed time spent in the land of the normal as an investigation into the world of marriage-worthy men, even if she was unsure about her own interest in marriage. There must be one solid citizen who also had a spark of life, a sense of humor and adventure.

Steve Martin

#9. 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, the many false starts, and the painful groping.

Ethel Barrymore

#10. Poritrin nobles professed to follow gentle, bucolic Navachristianity, but their core beliefs did not extend to their daily lives. They had their festivals, and embraced religious trappings, but the Poritrin upper classes did little to demonstrate their true faith.

Brian Herbert

#11. Defeat is always self-chosen.

Colin Wilson

#12. Change is just like tomorrow. Neither can be stopped, only dealt with

Corey Grant

#13. That's all there is; there isn't any more.

Ethel Barrymore

#14. The practice of yoga has been an amazing tool to actually unearth where my inspiration lives inside my body and mind and heart.

Rodney Yee

#15. The bass is the link between harmony and rhythm. It is the foundation of a band. It is what all the other instruments stand upon, but it is rarely recognized as that.

Victor Wooten

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

Ethel Barrymore

#17. [At age 76:] A good life is like a good play
it has to have a satisfying and exciting third act.

Ethel Barrymore

#18. [On Hollywood:] It looks, it feels, as though it had been invented by a Sixth Avenue peepshow man.

Ethel Barrymore

#19. The face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn an Event.

Ethel Barrymore

#20. 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

#21. Is everybody happy? I want everybody to be happy. I know I'm happy.

Ethel Barrymore

#22. 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 position from which to pray?

Ethel Barrymore

#23. If he wants me broken, then I will have to be whole.

Suzanne Collins

#24. I never let them cough. They wouldn't dare.

Ethel Barrymore

#25. He was this constant, living reminder of my biggest mistake.

David Levithan

#26. It's fine to be insane as long as you keep it to yourself.

Carol Plum-Ucci

#27. The best time to make friends is
before you need them.

Ethel Barrymore

#28. 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.

Ethel Barrymore

#29. 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

#30. 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 rhinocerus.

Ethel Barrymore