John Barrymore Quotations

Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.

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

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.

In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alone; but sometimes it is a great relief.

You can only be as good as you dare to be bad.

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

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

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

Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?

My wife was too beautiful for words, but not for arguments.

The good die young, because they see it's no use living if you have got to be good.

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

America is the country where you can buy a lifetime supply of aspirin For one dollar and use it up in two weeks.

I would like to find a stew that will give me heartburn immediately, instead of at three o clock in the morning.

You can't drown yourself in drink. I've tried, you float.

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

You never realize how short a month is until you pay alimony.

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

I've read some of your modern free verse and wonder who set it free.

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

One of my chief regrets during my years in the theater is that I couldn't sit in the audience and watch me

One of my chief regrets during my years in the theater is that I could not sit in the audience and watch me

He neither drank, smoked, nor rode a bicycle. Living frugally, saving his money, he died early, surrounded by greedy relatives. It was a great lesson to me.

Paper napkins never return from a laundry - nor love from a trip to the law courts

The way to fight a woman is with your hat - grab it and run

America is the country where you buy a lifetime supply of aspirin for one dollar and use it up in two weeks

Busy yourselves with this, you damned walruses, while the rest of use proceed with the libretto.

Dying is the last thing I will ever do.

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

Mr. [John] Barrymore's smile was the smile of an actor who hates actors, and who knows that he is going to kill two or three before the play is over. I am not an actor-killer, but I like my Hamlets to dislike actors, if you know what I mean, and I think you don't.

A man must pay the fiddler. In my case it so happened that a whole symphony orchestra often had to be subsidized.

Method acting? There are quite a few methods. Mine involves a lot of talent, a glass, and some cracked ice.

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

My only regret in the theater is that I could never sit out front and watch me.