Ethel Barrymore

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

— Ethel Barrymore

#humor #humor

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

#inspirational #humor

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

— Ethel Barrymore

#before #best #best time #friends #make

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

#best #get #knees #knocks #life

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

#between #both #difference #feel #films

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

— Ethel Barrymore

#dare #i #never #them

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. ↗

— Ethel Barrymore

#brains #face #figure #grace #hide

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

#arts #belong #find #generation #i

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

— Ethel Barrymore

#great #luminous #ones #stage

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

— Ethel Barrymore

#first #grow #grow up #laugh #real