John Barrymore Sayings

#1. I don't give a damn about any actors. What good will John Barrymore do you with the bases loaded and two down in a tight ball game. Either I get the money (more than Barrymore), or I don't play!

Babe Ruth

#2. Mr. [John] Barrymore's smile was the smile of an actor who hates actors, and who knows that he is going to kill two or three before the play is over. I am not an actor-killer, but I like my Hamlets to dislike actors, if you know what I mean, and I think you don't.

John Barrymore

#3. Often she would lock herself in her room and sitting before the mirror, apply the makeup of John Barrymore, Barrymore of The Sea Beast or of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Seeing these gruesome images in the mirror she would being to rave. "Who am I?" she would say. "What am I?

Henry Miller

#4. John Barrymore was a serious actor who did a great deal of research for all his parts, until, I guess, he was around 50. Then he started drinking heavily ... So he drank himself to death. It took him 10 years.

John Carradine

#5. Happiness always sneaks in through a door you din't know you left open

John Barrymore

#6. A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.

John Barrymore

#7. You never realize how short a month is until you pay alimony.

John Barrymore

#8. America is the country where you can buy a lifetime supply of aspirin For one dollar and use it up in two weeks.

John Barrymore

#9. You can't drown yourself in drink. I've tried, you float.

John Barrymore

#10. Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock.

John Barrymore

#11. In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alone; but sometimes it is a great relief.

John Barrymore

#12. There is something about a closet that makes a skeleton terribly restless.

John Barrymore

#13. My wife was too beautiful for words, but not for arguments.

John Barrymore

#14. Sex: the thing that takes up the least amount of time and causes the most amount of trouble.

John Barrymore

#15. Method acting? There are quite a few methods. Mine involves a lot of talent, a glass, and some cracked ice.

John Barrymore

#16. Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?

John Barrymore

#17. Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.

John Barrymore

#18. If it isn't the sheriff, it's the finance company; I've got more attachments on me than a vacuum cleaner.

John Barrymore

#19. The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

John Barrymore

#20. The good die young, because they see it's no use living if you have got to be good.

John Barrymore

#21. I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

John Barrymore

#22. Dying is the last thing I will ever do.

John Barrymore

#23. You can only be as good as you dare to be bad.

John Barrymore

#24. I would like to find a stew that will give me heartburn immediately, instead of at three o clock in the morning.

John Barrymore

#25. My head is buried in the sands of tomorrow, while my tail feathers are singed by the hot sun of today.

John Barrymore

#26. My only regret in the theater is that I could never sit out front and watch me.

John Barrymore

#27. A man must pay the fiddler. In my case it so happened that a whole symphony orchestra often had to be subsidized.

John Barrymore

#28. Busy yourselves with this, you damned walruses, while the rest of use proceed with the libretto.

John Barrymore

#29. When archaeologists discover the missing arms of Venus de Milo, they will find she was wearing boxing gloves.

John Barrymore

#30. My wife is the kind of girl who will not go anywhere without her mother, and her mother will go anywhere.

John Barrymore

#31. Happiness often sneaks in a door you did not know you had left open.

John Barrymore

#32. I've read some of your modern free verse and wonder who set it free.

John Barrymore

#33. Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him.

John Barrymore

#34. Going back to Georgiana Drew and John Drew, and my great-grandfather Maurice Barrymore, and it was such a sort of circus of odd, interesting people that loved acting.

Drew Barrymore