You must learn day by day, year by year to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more ...
ETHEL BARRYMORE You grow up the first day you have your first good laugh-at yourself.
ETHEL BARRYMORE Why be afraid of what people will say? Those who care about you will say, "Good luck!" and those who...
ETHEL BARRYMORE For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace ...
ETHEL BARRYMORE When life knocks you to your knees, and it will, why, get up! If it knocks you to your knees again, ...
ETHEL BARRYMORE I never let them cough. They wouldn't dare.
ETHEL BARRYMORE There is as much difference between the stage and the film as between a piano and a violin. Normally...
ETHEL BARRYMORE You must learn day by day, year by year, to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more...
ETHEL BARRYMORE You grow up on the day you have your first real laugh at, yourself.
ETHEL BARRYMORE The people are unreal. The flowers are unreal, they don't smell. The food is unreal, it doesn't tast...
ETHEL BARRYMORE For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of a Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grac...
ETHEL BARRYMORE You grow up the day you have your first real laugh -- at yourself.
ETHEL BARRYMORE Ring of Fire, The Johnny Cash Musical Show
ETHEL BARRYMORE The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure - if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong t...
ETHEL BARRYMORE The face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn an Event.
ETHEL BARRYMORE The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage.
ETHEL BARRYMORE For an actress to be a success she must have the face of Venus, the brains of Minerva, the grace of ...
ETHEL BARRYMORE Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragemen...
ETHEL BARRYMORE Deep Are the Roots.
ETHEL BARRYMORE Fundamentally I feel that there is as much difference between the stage and the films as between a p...
ETHEL BARRYMORE Fundamentally I feel that there is as much difference between the stage and the films as between a p...
ETHEL BARRYMORE That's all there is; there isn't any more.
ETHEL BARRYMORE You grow up the day you have the first real laugh at yourself.
ETHEL BARRYMORE I never let them cough. They wouldn't dare.
ETHEL BARRYMORE That's all there is; there isn't any more.
ETHEL BARRYMORE When life knocks you to your knees, and it will, why, get up! If it knocks you to your knees again, ...
ETHEL BARRYMORE Today or any day that phone may ring and bring good news.
ETHEL WATERS I've never been able to feel that there is anything undignified about making your living by the ...
ETHEL WATERS I wasn't straining at the bit to become a movie star any more than I had plotted to get out of v...
ETHEL MERMAN Broadway has been very good to me. But then, I've been very good to broadway.
ETHEL MERMAN Basically there is no difference between whites and blacks, browns and yellows. I decided to think n...
ETHEL WATERS When we lost Bobby, I would wake up in the morning and think, 'He's OK. He's in Heaven, ...
ETHEL KENNEDY Legend has it that when God created me, he gave me a big distinctive voice, a lot of boldness and no...
ETHEL MERMAN We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do.
ETHEL BARRETT It has been an ache and a joy both to look over this big shoulder of mine at all my yesterdays.
ETHEL WATERS Introspection! I hate it!
ETHEL KENNEDY Christmas carols always brought tears to my eyes. I also cry at weddings. I should have cried at a c...
ETHEL MERMAN Everything's coming up roses - for me.
ETHEL MERMAN We are all gifted. That is our inheritance.
ETHEL WATERS At one time I smoked, but in 1959 I couldn't think of anything else to give up for Lent so I sto...
ETHEL MERMAN Whenever I played Columbus, Ohio, I dropped in to see my close friend, a medium who had mysterious p...
ETHEL WATERS We never had a bathtub. Mom would bathe me in the wooden or tin washtub in the kitchen, or in a big ...
ETHEL WATERS When you dominate other people's emotions, the time has to come when you will have to pay, and h...
ETHEL WATERS The big compliment came from the beer drinkers who didn't know me. They wouldn't drink or mo...
ETHEL WATERS After years in white theaters I dreaded working in colored houses. The noise, the stomping, whistlin...
ETHEL WATERS We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest and ou...
ETHEL ANDRUS The human contribution is the essential ingredient.
ETHEL ANDRUS What I spent, is gone; what I kept, I lost;/ but what I gave away will be mine forever.
ETHEL ANDRUS Such to me is the new image of aging: growth in self and service for all mankind
ETHEL ANDRUS The human contribution is the essential ingredient. It is only in the giving of oneself to others th...
ETHEL ANDRUS Nothing can beat the smell of dew and flowers and the odor that comes out of the earth when the sun ...
ETHEL WATERS Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person.
ETHEL MUMFORD God gives us relatives; thank God we can choose our friends.
ETHEL MUMFORD New York is only 97 miles from Philadelphia but was the Big Time as no other American city has ever ...
ETHEL WATERS No one in the world can beat Ella Fitzgerald as a riff singer.
ETHEL WATERS At a flea market I always head for the junk jewelry table first.
ETHEL MERMAN I was lucky enough to have the songs in my first show written by George and Ira Gershwin. Then Cole ...
ETHEL MERMAN Somehow, the things my mother wanted to do, the release in evangelism she sought with such frenzy, w...
ETHEL WATERS I have plenty of invitations to go places, lots to do. If I'm not working, I go to have my hair ...
ETHEL MERMAN We all must pay the price to be our genuine selves.
ETHEL RUSSELL None of the seven is really good, for the excellent reason that Australian children never are.
ETHEL TURNER Elia Kazan understood my problems. He was able to bring out the very best in me. He gave me credit f...
ETHEL WATERS I am known to be able to take care of myself when I become angry. I don't mince words.
ETHEL MERMAN At the present moment, with little or no detail to hand, it is difficult for me to make any comment,...
ETHEL ROSENBERG I want affection and tenderness desperately, but there's something in me that prevents me from h...
ETHEL WATERS Pinky.
ETHEL WATERS St. Louis Blues.
ETHEL WATERS The World Is Your Balloon: The Decca Singles 1950-1951.
ETHEL MERMAN I take a breath when I have to.
ETHEL MERMAN You are a person of the greatest importance when you are a mother of a family. Just do your job righ...
ETHEL WATERS Eisenhower was my war hero and the President I admire and respect most.
ETHEL MERMAN I can hold a note as long as the Chase National Bank.
ETHEL MERMAN You'll never prove you're too good for a job by not doing your best
ETHEL MERMAN It's saved many a guy from wives, girlfriends, whatever.
ETHEL SHATFORD Broadway has been very good to me. But then, I've been very good to Broadway.
ETHEL MERMAN I can never remember being afraid of an audience. If the audience could do better, they'd be up here...
ETHEL MERMAN Always give them the old fire, even when you feel like a squashed cake of ice.
ETHEL MERMAN But Not For Me.
ETHEL MERMAN All my life I've been prejudiced against wealthy people.
ETHEL WATERS There was one emotional outlet my people always had when they had the blues. That was singing.
ETHEL WATERS I wouldn't change one thing about my professional life, and I make it a point not to dwell on my...
ETHEL MERMAN As far as dramas are concerned, it's considered passe for playwrights to turn out anything the a...
ETHEL MERMAN All the moms, and dads, and kids, and grandparents - everybody helps.
ETHEL GROSSMAN We have big serving lines in the kitchen. They fill your plate and they take it out, and you never k...
ETHEL GROSSMAN We order the meat [in advance] because it has to be kosher.
ETHEL GROSSMAN It used to be a buffet, but that would take forever now.
ETHEL GROSSMAN My career at Warner Brothers consisted of one musical short subject. I was running around in a bear ...
ETHEL MERMAN My beloved Mom and Pop always rated tops with each other, and that's the way it will always be.
ETHEL MERMAN Though I was excited about the Sojourner Truth play, it was not reassuring to think that my entire f...
ETHEL WATERS The white audiences thought I was white, my features being what they are, and at every performance I...
ETHEL WATERS When you are in deep conflict about something, sometimes the most trivial thing can tip the scales.
ETHEL MERMAN I've never cooked. I can't do much more in the kitchen than make a cup of tea and some toast...
ETHEL MERMAN Well, it so happens that I have had a spinal curvature since I was about thirteen and every once in ...
ETHEL ROSENBERG A writer's mind seems to be situated partly in the solar plexus and partly in the head.
ETHEL WILSON It's a young man's game, a single man's game.
ETHEL SHATFORD Those Were the Good Old Days.
ETHEL ROSENBERG We are innocent... To forsake this truth is to pay too high a price even for the priceless gift of l...
ETHEL ROSENBERG Well, if I used the privilege of self-incrimination at that time, I must have felt that perhaps ther...
ETHEL ROSENBERG Well, it was alleged that he was a member of the Communist Party.
ETHEL ROSENBERG I refuse to answer on the ground that this might be incriminating.
ETHEL ROSENBERG The condition of my child was very poor.
ETHEL ROSENBERG I never heard any such conversation.
ETHEL ROSENBERG Behind every man who achieves success, Stands a mother, a wife and the IRS
ETHEL JACOBSON Kosher means clean. Kosher meat is butchered in a very special way so that the animal doesn't suffer...
ETHEL GROSSMAN It can be stressful - you listen to one sad, bad, situation - sometimes one after the other.
ETHEL FITZPATRICK Lots of time, you pray a lot and you cry a lot because you're hoping you're trying to do the right t...
ETHEL BUSSMAN There are people who come in who don't know what they would have done if they hadn't come in.
ETHEL BUSSMAN She heard through somebody else that I had experience, and I wasn't even looking for a job.
ETHEL BUSSMAN He brewed his tea in a blue china pot, poured it into a chipped white cup with forget-me-nots on the...
ETHEL POCHOCKI I never was coddled, or liked, or understood by my family.
ETHEL WATERS Mom never quit on me. My only regret is that she didn't live long enough to share some of the mo...
ETHEL WATERS There's no hypocrisy in Hell's Kitchen.
ETHEL WATERS I have no acting technique I act instinctively. That's why I can't play any role that isn...
ETHEL WATERS Mom was the greatest influence of my childhood. She wanted to save me from the vice, lust, and drink...
ETHEL WATERS My whole family could sing. My family harmonized without any instruments to accompany them.
ETHEL WATERS Negroes are human beings with exactly the same faults and virtues as members of the other races.
ETHEL WATERS I never felt I belonged. I was always an outsider.
ETHEL WATERS All the men in my life have been two things: an epic and an epidemic.
ETHEL WATERS I wanted to be with the kind of people I'd grown up with, but you can't go back to them and ...
ETHEL WATERS I have reason to be shy. I've been hurt plenty.
ETHEL WATERS Mom and Pop were proud of my popularity, but from their point of view, show business was no way to m...
ETHEL MERMAN Of my four marriages, the one to Bob Levitt is the only one I don't regret.
ETHEL MERMAN When I'm asked how to succeed in show business, I always say I haven't the foggiest.
ETHEL MERMAN Any audience that gets a laugh out of me gets it while I'm facing them.
ETHEL MERMAN I Got Rhythm really put me on the map.
ETHEL MERMAN I wouldn't trust any man as far as you can throw a piano.
ETHEL MERMAN There have been people who have tried to take advantage of me. They want to be linked to me just bec...
ETHEL MERMAN I was born in my parents' bedroom on January 16. The World Almanac says it was 1909. I say it wa...
ETHEL MERMAN You gotta have a gimmick.
ETHEL MERMAN I work as often as I want and yet I'm free as a bird.
ETHEL MERMAN The Kennedys were very organized. Dinner was always served at 7:15, and if you were a minute late, i...
ETHEL KENNEDY Love is the hardest habit to break, and the most difficult to satisfy.
DREW BARRYMORE There's something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk.
DREW BARRYMORE Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.
JOHN BARRYMORE It's not just about acting. I love film, I'm a director now, I love writing, I love producin...
DREW BARRYMORE I love inventive food, but I want the classic dishes to taste like how I remember them. I get a litt...
DREW BARRYMORE In a world and a life that moves so fast, photography just makes the sound go out and it makes you s...
DREW BARRYMORE I want people to be blown away when I do what they don't expect.
DREW BARRYMORE I personally battled with my own body image for years. I used to tell myself, You can't wear any...
DREW BARRYMORE I never want to get to the point where it's all about my needs, and the hell with anybody else.
DREW BARRYMORE Oh, I love hugging. I wish I was an octopus, so I could hug 10 people at a time!
DREW BARRYMORE If you don't take risks, you'll have a wasted soul.
DREW BARRYMORE I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for ...
JOHN BARRYMORE Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?
JOHN BARRYMORE Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn
JOHN BARRYMORE A man must pay the fiddler, in my case it so happened that a whole symphony orchestra often had to b...
JOHN BARRYMORE The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
JOHN BARRYMORE Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to ...
JOHN BARRYMORE Sex: the thing that takes up the least amount of time and causes the most amount of trouble.
JOHN BARRYMORE My wife is the kind of girl who will not go anywhere without her mother, and her mother will go anyw...
JOHN BARRYMORE A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.
JOHN BARRYMORE Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like...
JOHN BARRYMORE You never know how short a month is until you pay alimony.
JOHN BARRYMORE If it isn't the sheriff, it's the finance company; I've got more attachments on me than a vacuum cle...
JOHN BARRYMORE I would like to find a stew that will give me heartburn immediately, instead of at three o clock in ...
JOHN BARRYMORE I've read some of your modern free verse and wonder who set it free.
JOHN BARRYMORE In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alone; but sometimes it is a great relief.
JOHN BARRYMORE My wife was too beautiful for words, but not for arguments.
JOHN BARRYMORE America is the country where you can buy a lifetime supply of aspirin For one dollar and use it up i...
JOHN BARRYMORE The good die young - because they see it's no use living if you've got to be good
JOHN BARRYMORE I've been a vegetarian for years and years. I'm not judgemental about others who aren't, I just feel...
DREW BARRYMORE Don't show your flaws.
DREW BARRYMORE Kissing-and I mean like, yummy, smacking kissing - is the most delicious, most beautiful and passion...
DREW BARRYMORE Life, the gift of nature, Love, the gift of life, a Kiss, the gift of Love
DREW BARRYMORE You never realize how short a month is until you pay alimony.
JOHN BARRYMORE I remember being on film sets when I was younger, and only men got to do the cool action movies. So ...
DREW BARRYMORE I remember being on film sets when I was younger, and only men got to do the cool action movies. So ...
DREW BARRYMORE It's never too late. Don't focus on what was taken away. Find something to replace it, and a...
DREW BARRYMORE Whatever I've experienced in my life is a part of my story, and I'm proud of that. But it...
DREW BARRYMORE I love romance. I'm a sucker for it. I love it so much. It's pathetic.
DREW BARRYMORE I'm very sensitive to the English language. I studied the dictionary obsessively when I was a ki...
DREW BARRYMORE There's a tremendous difference between alone and lonely. You could be lonely in a group of peop...
DREW BARRYMORE I pray to be like the ocean, with soft currents, maybe waves at times. More and more, I want the con...
DREW BARRYMORE I've always said that one night, I'm going to find myself in some field somewhere, I'm s...
DREW BARRYMORE When I did 'E.T.,' it sort of solidified the only family I know are these film crews. These ...
DREW BARRYMORE If you're not prepared, and you're not passionate, and you don't push yourself to a leve...
DREW BARRYMORE Everyone is like a butterfly, they start out ugly and awkward and then morph into beautiful graceful...
DREW BARRYMORE I'm such an avid magazine reader - music, art, beauty magazines - and I found that food and rest...
DREW BARRYMORE Great dad. Yeah, he would ask me for money on birthdays and, you know, inappropriate times. And I ju...
DREW BARRYMORE I am not someone who is ashamed of my past. I'm actually really proud. I know I made a lot of mi...
DREW BARRYMORE Becoming emancipated at 14, my life wasn't normal. I didn't have to go to school, so I didn&...
DREW BARRYMORE I have to say, if someone literally said to me, 'You're going off to a desert island, what i...
DREW BARRYMORE I think that being happy makes the biggest impact on your physical appearance.
DREW BARRYMORE I think happiness is a choice. If you feel yourself being happy and can settle in to the life choice...
DREW BARRYMORE In the end, some of your greatest pains become your greatest strengths.
DREW BARRYMORE It's my crusade to help women feel good about themselves.
DREW BARRYMORE I am obsessed with ice cubes. Obsessed.
DREW BARRYMORE When you work in film, you learn to appreciate a distributor. You can have this great little film, b...
DREW BARRYMORE I used to have a blankie, and when my mom had to wash it, I would sit outside the dryer and watch it...
DREW BARRYMORE I don't like camera trickery and editing and doubles and all of that.
DREW BARRYMORE I grew up in a family that was multifaceted, sexually oriented, and pretty much open to everything. ...
DREW BARRYMORE I loved the world of roller derby because I thought it was such an empowering metaphor, that you get...
DREW BARRYMORE I cannot live a life where I'm deprived. I'd much rather be five, 10 pounds heavier. With my...
DREW BARRYMORE I'm not insecure. I've been through way too much f**king sh*t to be insecure. I've got huge balls. B...
DREW BARRYMORE The way to fight a woman is with your hat. Grab it and run.
JOHN BARRYMORE A man must properly pay the fiddler. In my case it so happened that a whole symphony orchestra had t...
JOHN BARRYMORE I never regret anything. Because every little detail of your life is what made you into who you are ...
DREW BARRYMORE One of my chief regrets during my recent years in the theater is that I couldn't sit in the audience...
JOHN BARRYMORE Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.
JOHN BARRYMORE America is the country where you buy a lifetime supply of aspirin for one dollar and use it up in tw...
JOHN BARRYMORE