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.
You grow up the day you have the first real laugh at yourself. - Ethel Barrymore
You grow up the day you have the first real laugh at yourself.
- Ethel Barrymore
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 mo… - Ethel Barrymore
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 mo…
[on Hollywood] It looks, it feels, as though it had been invented by a Sixth Avenue peepshow man. - Ethel Barrymore
[on Hollywood] It looks, it feels, as though it had been invented by a Sixth Avenue peepshow man.
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,… - Ethel Barrymore
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,…
[At age 76:] A good life is like a good play -- it has to have a satisfying and exciting third act. - Ethel Barrymore
[At age 76:] A good life is like a good play -- it has to have a satisfying and exciting third act.
The best time to make friends is before you need them. - Ethel Barrymore
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
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 fr… - Ethel Barrymore
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 fr…
The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage. - Ethel Barrymore
The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage.
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 vi… - 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 vi…
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