Ethel Barrymore Quotes

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

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

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

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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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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