
As "Rigby Reardon" in Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982)
Telegram sent to Garson Kanin regarding Barrymore's rumored stroke following his collapse prior to a 1939 performance of Catherine Turney's My Dear Children at the Selwyn Theater in Chicago, as quoted in Kanin's Hollywood (1974), p. 45
As "Rigby Reardon" in Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982)
“Old age is always fifteen years older than I am.”
Actually by financier Bernard Baruch.
Misattributed
“To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.”
On his 85th birthday, as quoted in The Observer [London] (21 August 1955)
Letter to Henry Luce (1945); as quoted in Good Old Harry
“Tyrawley and I have been dead these two years; but we don't choose to have it known.”
Quoted in Boswell's Life of Johnson