“The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors ...” — Ethel Barrymore Quote

“The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage.”

“The face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn an Event.”

“The best time to make friends is before you need them.”

“A little flattery will support a man through great fatigue.”

“Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.”

“The American women are very pretty and have great simplicity of character, and the extreme neatness of their appearance is truly delightful: cleanliness is everywhere even more studiously attended to here than in England.”