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Ethel Barrymore

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    Ethel Barrymore

    [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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    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.

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    Ethel Barrymore

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

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    Ethel Barrymore

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

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    Ethel Barrymore

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

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    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.

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    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.

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

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

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

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    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?

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

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    You must learn, day by day, year by year, to broaden your horizon.

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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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    Ethel Barrymore

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