John Barrymore Quotes

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

— John Barrymore

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

— John Barrymore

“There is something about a closet that makes a skeleton terribly restless.”

— John Barrymore

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

— John Barrymore

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

— John Barrymore

“Happiness often sneaks in a door you did not know you had left open.”

— John Barrymore

Dying is the last thing I will ever do.

— John Barrymore

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

— John Barrymore

“Happiness always sneaks in through a door you din't know you left open”

— John Barrymore

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

— 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

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

— John Barrymore

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

— John Barrymore

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

— John Barrymore

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

— John Barrymore

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

— 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

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

— John Barrymore

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

— 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

“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

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

— John Barrymore

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

— John Barrymore

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

— 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

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

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

— 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