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Ethel Barrymore [1879-1959] American

Rank: 104
Actress

Ethel Barrymore was an American actress and a member of the Barrymore family of actors. Regarded as the "First Lady of the American Theater", Barrymore was a preeminent stage actress in her era. Barrymore's career spanned six decades.

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You grow up the day you have the first real laugh at yourself.		101
The best time to make friends is before you need them.	Best, Friendship, Time	102
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.	Wisdom	103
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?		104
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.		105
The face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn an Event.		106
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.		107
The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage.		108
That's all there is; there isn't any more.		109
I never let them cough. They wouldn't dare.		110
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.		111
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.		112

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