The best time to make friends is before you need them. – Ethel Barrymore
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, isnt that the best position from which to pray? – Ethel Barrymore
There is as much difference between the stage and the film as between a piano and a violin. Normally you cant become a virtuoso in both. – Ethel Barrymore
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