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Ethel Barrymore
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“That's all there is, there isn't any more.”
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“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.”
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“... 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?”
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“You grow up the day you have your first real laugh — at yourself.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“[On audiences:] I never let them cough. They wouldn't dare.”
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“The best time to make friends is before you need them.”
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“[At age 76:] A good life is like a good play — it has to have a satisfying and exciting third act.”
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“Is everybody happy? I want everybody to be happy. I know I'm happy.”
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“[On Hollywood:] It looks, it feels, as though it had been invented by a Sixth Avenue peepshow man.”
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“You can't turn yesterday's cold mutton into today's spring lamp chops.”
Ethel Barrymore, U.S. actor
(1879 - 1959)