John Barrymore movie quotes

“A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.”
John Barrymore

“My head is buried in the sands of tomorrow, while my tail feathers are singed by the hot sun of today.”
John Barrymore

“Sex: the thing that takes up the least amount of time and causes the most amount of trouble.”
John Barrymore

“Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?”
John Barrymore

“She was too beautiful for words, but non for arguments.”

John Barrymore

“The way some people find fault, you'd think there was some kind of reward.”
John Barrymore

“Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock.”
John Barrymore

“Method acting? Mine involves a lot of talent, a glass, and some cracked ice.”
John Barrymore

“Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him.”
John Barrymore

“There are other things important. You're a kid of nineteen. You're nineteen and I'm forty-sev... I'm almost forty.”
John Barrymore - Larry Renault

“I didn't know you ever had, darling.”

John Barrymore On Katharine Hepburn

“If you stay in front of that camera long enough, it will show you not only what you had for breakfast but who your ancestors were.”
John Barrymore

“I like to be introduced as America's foremost actor. It saves the necessity of further effort.”
John Barrymore

“You can't drown yourself in drink. I've tried, you float.”
John Barrymore

“You can only be as good as you dare to be bad.”
John Barrymore

“When archaeologists discover the missing arms of Venus de Milo, they will find she was wearing boxing gloves.”
John Barrymore

“The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.”
John Barrymore

“My wife is the kind of girl who will not go anywhere without her mother, and her mother will go anywhere.”
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

“If it isn't the sheriff, it's the finance company; I've got more attachments on me than a vacuum cleaner.”
John Barrymore

“I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.”
John Barrymore

“Acting is not an art. It's a junk pile of all the arts. But in behalf of my scavenger profession I'll make this boast. An actor is much better off than a human being. He isn't stuck with the paltry fellow he is. He can always act his better and non-existent self.”
John Barrymore

“America is the country where you buy a lifetime supply of aspirin for one dollar, and use it up in two weeks.”
John Barrymore

“The good die young - because they see it's no use living if you've got to be good.”
John Barrymore

“A man must pay the fiddler, in my case it so happened that a
whole symphony orchestra often had to be subsidized.”
John Barrymore