24 Quotes by Ethel Barrymore

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

I never let them cough. They wouldn't dare.

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.

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.

Ring of Fire, The Johnny Cash Musical Show

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

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

Is everybody happy? I want everybody to be happy. I know I'm happy.

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