Quotes from Lionel Barrymore

If a man doesn't know death, he doesn't know life.

The older you get, the more you realize that kindness is synonymous with happiness

For the first time in my life, I have tasted life. Life is wonderful but very dangerous. If you have the courage to live it - it's marvelous!

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

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.

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