Ethel Barrymore
Birth Name: Ethel Mae Blyth (or Blythe)
Birthdate: August 15, 1879
Birthplace: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Date of Death: June 18, 1959
Occupation: Actor
Profile: Awarded an Academy Award in 1944. Best known for
None But the Lonely Heart. Sister
of
John Barrymore.
Website: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethel_Barrymore
Number of Quotes: 18
For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of Venus, the brains of Minerva, the
grace of Terpsichore, the memory of Macaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros.
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.
I always want to be the first violinist, not the second.
I never let them cough. They wouldn't dare.
Insecurity is the mother of fear. The more secure you feel in yourself, the braver you will be.
Is everybody happy? I want everybody to be happy. I know I'm happy.
Love is the thing that enables a woman to sing while she mops up the floor after her husband has walked across it in his barn boots.
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.
That's all there is, there isn't any more.
The Corn Is Green
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.
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
The face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn an Event.
The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage.
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.
To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.
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?
You grow up the day you have your first real laugh at yourself.
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.
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