Lionel Barrymore
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"Lionel Barrymore" was an American actor of stage, screen and radio as well as a film director. He won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in A Free Soul (1931), and remains perhaps best known for the role of the villainous Mr. Potter character in Frank Capra's 1946 film It's a Wonderful Life. He was a member of the theatrical Barrymore family.

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

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.

I've got a lot of ham in me.