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

~Ethel Barrymore

Topics: Before Best Best Time Friends Make Need Them Time You

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

~Ethel Barrymore

Topics: Day First Grow Grow Up Laugh Real Up You Yourself

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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.

~Ethel Barrymore

Topics: About Anything Broaden Day Enjoy Happens Horizon Indignant Interested Learn Left Love More Must Things Year You Your

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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?

~Ethel Barrymore

Topics: Again Best Get Knees Knocks Life Position Pray Up Well Which Why Will You Your

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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.

~Ethel Barrymore

Topics: Actress Brains Face Figure Grace Hide Memory Must Rhinoceros She Success Venus

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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.

~Ethel Barrymore

Topics: Achievements Difficulties Doubts Failures False Forget Keep Many Our Painful Past Speak Starts Tend Themselves Track

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That's all there is; there isn't any more.

~Ethel Barrymore

Topics: Any More

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

~Ethel Barrymore

Topics: Event Face Hepburn Idea

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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.

~Ethel Barrymore

Topics: Artist Arts Belong Find Generation Instantaneous Just Like Ought Out Pleasure Says Understand Which Wrong You

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

~Ethel Barrymore

Topics: Actor Conductors Great Luminous Stage

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actress

Born: August 15th, 1879

Died: June 18th, 1959

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