Lionel Barrymore Quotes

Lionel Barrymore — American Actor born on April 28, 1878, died on November 15, 1954

Lionel Barrymore was an American actor of stage, screen and radio as well as a film director. He won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in A Free Soul, and remains best known to modern audiences for the role of the villainous Mr. Potter character in Frank Capra's 1946 film It's a Wonderful Life. He is also particularly remembered as Ebenezer Scrooge in annual broadcasts of A Christmas Carol during his last two decades. He was a member of the theatrical Barrymore family... (wikipedia)

I've got a lot of ham in me.

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

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.

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

Lionel Barrymore Quotes

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