"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."
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Robert Benchley, The New Yorker (October 17, 1936)
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John Barrymore
1882 – 1942
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