Lionel Barrymore

“Hollywood is tied hand and foot to the demands for artificiality of the masses all over the world.”

“Half the people in Hollywood are dying to be discovered and the other half are afraid they will be.”

“To my mind there is nothing so beautiful or so provocative as a secondhand book store...To me it is astonishing and miraculous to think that any one of us can poke among the stalls for something to read overnight--and that this something may be the sum of a lifetime of sweat, tears, and genius that some poor, struggling, blessed fellow expended trying to teach us the truth.”

“I've got a lot of ham in me.”

“I can remember when nobody believed an actor and didn't care what he believed.”

“This is the age of insincerity. The movies had the misfortune to come along in the twentieth century, and because they appeal to the masses there can be no sincerity in them.”