32. John Barrymore – “Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him.”
John Barrymore, the great stage and screen actor of the 1930s-40s, died in 1942 at age 60. He delivered this dramatic denial on his deathbed. The theatrical flair of a Barrymore through and through makes it legendary. It’s a larger-than-life final line from one of Hollywood’s original matinee idols.
