Lionel Barrymore Quotes

The older you get, the more you realize that kindness is synonymous with happiness

Hollywood is tied hand and foot to the demands for artificiality of the masses all over the world.

Lincoln said, 'With malice toward none, with charity to all.' Nowadays they say, 'Think the way I do or I'll bomb the daylights outta you.'

I can remember when nobody believed an actor and didn't care what he believed.

To my mind there is nothing so beautiful or so provocative as a secondhand book store...To me it is astonishing and miraculous to think that any one of us can poke among the stalls for something to read overnight--and that this something may be the sum of a lifetime of sweat, tears, and genius that some poor, struggling, blessed fellow expended trying to teach us the truth.

For the first time in my life, I have tasted life. Life is wonderful but very dangerous. If you have the courage to live it - it's marvelous!

Half the people in Hollywood are dying to be discovered and the other half are afraid they will be.

This is the age of insincerity. The movies had the misfortune to come along in the twentieth century, and because they appeal to the masses there can be no sincerity in them.

I've got a lot of ham in me.

Maybe it'll stop you trying to be so desperate about making more money than you can ever use? You can't take it with you, Mr. Kirby. So what good is it? As near as I can see, the only thing you can take with you is the love of your friends.

If a man doesn't know death, he doesn't know life.

I've played everything but the harp.