John Barrymore - biography

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

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

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

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

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

“The good die young - because they see it’s no use living if you’ve got to be good.”

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

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

“If it isn’t the sheriff, it’s the finance company; I’ve got more attachments on me than a vacuum cleaner.”

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

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

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

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

“A man must properly pay the fiddler.  In my case it so happened that a whole symphony orchestra had to be subsidized.”

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

“I am thinking of taking a fifth wife.  Why not?  Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.”

“Brides aren’t happy - they are just triumphant.”

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

“I’ve read some of your modern free verse and wonder who set it free.”

“In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alone; but sometimes it is a great relief.”

“The way to fight a woman is with your hat.  Grab it and run.”

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

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

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

John Barrymore has appeared in the following films:
The Dream of a Moving Picture Director (1912)
The Widow Casey’s Return (1912)
A Prize Package (1912)
One on Romance (1913)
An American Citizen (1914)
The Man from Mexico (1914)
Are You a Mason? (1915)
The Dictator (1915)
The Incorrigible Dukane (1915)
Nearly a King (1916)
The Lost Bridegroom (1916)
The Red Widow (1916)
Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman (1917)
National Red Cross Pageant (1917)
On the Quiet (1918)
Here Comes the Bride (1919)
The Test of Honor (1919)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920)
The Lotus Eater (1921)
Sherlock Holmes (1922)
Beau Brummel (1924)
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)
The Sea Beast (1926)
Don Juan (1926)
When a Man Loves (1927)
The Beloved Rogue (1927)
Tempest (1928)
Eternal Love (1929)
The Show of Shows (1929)
General Crack (1930)
The Man from Blankley’s (1930)
Moby Dick (1930)
Svengali (1931)
The Mad Genius (1931)
Arsène Lupin (1932)
Grand Hotel (1932)
State’s Attorney (1932)
A Bill of Divorcement (1932)
Rasputin and the Empress (1932)
Hamlet – Act I: Scene V (1933)
Topaze (1933)
Reunion in Vienna (1933)
Dinner at Eight (1933)
Night Flight (1933)
Counsellor at Law (1933)
Long Lost Father (1934)
Twentieth Century (1934)
Romeo and Juliet (1936)
Maytime (1937)
Bulldog Drummond Comes Back (1937)
Night Club Scandal (1937)
Bulldog Drummond’s Revenge (1937)
True Confession (1937)
Bulldog Drummond’s Peril (1938)
Romance in the Dark (1938)
Marie Antoinette (1938)
Spawn of the North (1938)
Hold That Co-ed (1938)
The Great Man Votes (1939)
Midnight (1939)
The Great Profile (1940)
The Invisible Woman (1940)
World Premiere (1941)
Playmates (1941)