In Hollywood now when people die they don't say, 'Did he leave a will?' but 'Did he leave a diary?'
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him.
People say you never remember anybody who dies in movies, and it's true, you don't. You don't even remember people who disappear.
I experienced a lot of loss after his death. I lost my city because of all the paparazzi descending upon us. I actually lost my journal during that time, oddly enough. I literally couldn't hold on to anything.
I suspect there isn't an actor alive who was able to truthfully answer his family's questions after his first day's activity in his future profession.
As we had no part of our will on our entrance into this life, we should not presume to any on our leaving it, but soberly learn to will which He wills.
I don't think actors ever retire, they just stop being asked to work.
The reason so many people turned up at his funeral is that they wanted to make sure he was dead.
They would have been very let down if they had to leave the theater and he had missed. He would feel badly. Everyone would feel badly. But he never let them down.
He vanished to the public in order to materialize for his family.
Actors don't, in fact, retire, do they? It took me a while to remember that.