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

- 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,…

- 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

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

- Ethel Barrymore

[At age 76:] A good life is like a good play -- it has to have a satisfying and exciting third act.

- 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…

- Ethel Barrymore

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

- 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…

- Ethel Barrymore

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

- Ethel Barrymore