Top 28 Quotes & Sayings by John Barrymore

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American actor John Barrymore.

Last updated on December 21, 2024.

John Barrymore was an American actor on stage, screen and radio. A member of the Drew and Barrymore theatrical families, he initially tried to avoid the stage, and briefly attempted a career as an artist, but appeared on stage together with his father Maurice in 1900, and then his sister Ethel the following year. He began his career in 1903 and first gained attention as a stage actor in light comedy, then high drama, culminating in productions of Justice (1916), Richard III (1920) and Hamlet (1922); his portrayal of Hamlet led to him being called the "greatest living American tragedian".

American - Actor | February 15, 1882 - May 29, 1942

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

John Barrymore

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

John Barrymore

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

John Barrymore

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

John Barrymore

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

John Barrymore

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

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

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

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

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

John Barrymore

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

John Barrymore

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

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

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

John Barrymore

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

John Barrymore

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

John Barrymore

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

John Barrymore

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

John Barrymore

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

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

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

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

John Barrymore

Dying is the last thing I will ever do.

John Barrymore

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.

John Barrymore

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

John Barrymore

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

John Barrymore

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

John Barrymore