Marie Dressler Quotes

• Only a few things are really important.

  Marie Dressler

  Funny, Life, Happiness

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

  Marie Dressler

  Birthday, Wisdom, Age

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• By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

  Marie Dressler

  Birthday, Maturity, Turning 50

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If ants are such busy workers, how come they find time to go to all the picnics?

  Marie Dressler

  Time, Picnics, Ants

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Character is what you have when nobody is looking.

  Marie Dressler

  Character

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• Fate cast me to play the role of an ugly duckling with no promise of swanning. . . . I have played my life as a comedy rather than the tragedy many would have made of it.

  Marie Dressler

  Fate, Ugly Duckling, Play

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• The world doesn't go around on love between men and women. Lovers get very little done. But friends do. When you are past middle life - and I hope you have the rich experience of love along the way - don't think everything is all over. Don't regret the vanished cocktail when the stuffed turkey is about to come in. Flip out your napkin and bite into it! Friends you can gather around you in the later years of life are worth the whole thing.

  Marie Dressler

  Regret, Past, Love Is

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• If a man is worth loving at all, he is worth loving generously, even recklessly.

  Marie Dressler

  Love, Men, Ifs

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• I contend that every woman has the right to feel beautiful, no matter how scrambled her features, or how indifferent her features.

  Marie Dressler

  Beautiful, Matter, Indifferent

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• Never one thing and seldom one person can make for a success. It takes a number of them merging into one perfect whole.

  Marie Dressler

  Inspirational, Numbers, Perfect

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• That's the unfortunate thing about death. It's so terribly final.

  Marie Dressler

  Unfortunate Things, Finals, Unfortunate

  "Fictional character: Carlotta Vance". "Dinner at Eight", www.imdb.com. 1933.

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• By the time we've hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons

  Marie Dressler

  Lessons, Fifty, Hardest

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• There is a vast difference between success at twenty-five and success at sixty. At sixty, nobody envies you. Instead, everybody rejoices generously, sincerely, in your good fortune.

  Marie Dressler

  Success, Differences, Envy

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• I'm too homely for a prima donna and too ugly for a soubrette.

  Marie Dressler

  Ugly, Prima Donnas, Homely

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I have had a couple of marriages, but like every other woman I had a perfect right to them.

  Marie Dressler

  Marriage, Couple, Perfect

  Marie Dressler (1924). “The Eminent American Comedienne Marie Dressler in The Life Story of an Ugly Duckling: An Autobiographical Fragment in Seven Parts”, New York : R.M. McBride

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• I have no patience with women who measure and weigh their love like a country doctor dispensing capsules. If a man is worth loving at all, he is worth loving generously, even recklessly.

  Marie Dressler

  Country, Men, Doctors

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• I enjoy reading biographies because I want to know about the people who messed up the world.

  Marie Dressler

  Reading, People, World

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• I'll have my double chins in privacy.

  Marie Dressler

  Privacy, Chins

  "Fictional character: Carlotta Vance". "Dinner at Eight", www.imdb.com. 1922.

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• In order to represent life on the stage, we must rub elbows with life, live ourselves

  Marie Dressler

  Order, Elbows, Stage

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• I was born serious and I have earned my bread making other people laugh.

  Marie Dressler

  People, Laughing, Bread

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• To know that one has never really tried - that is the only death

  Marie Dressler

  Trying, Knows

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• My instinct has always been to turn drawbacks into drawing cards.

  Marie Dressler

  Drawing, Challenges, Cards

  Marie Dressler (1924). “The Eminent American Comedienne Marie Dressler in The Life Story of an Ugly Duckling: An Autobiographical Fragment in Seven Parts”, New York : R.M. McBride

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• I never ride horseback now because my sympathy with the under-dog is too keen. After we have a gone a few blocks, I always dismount and say to the horse: 'We'll walk it together, old dear.

  Marie Dressler

  Dog, Horse, Block

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• You're only as good as your last picture.

  Marie Dressler

  Lasts, Haircuts

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If there's one thing I know, it's men. I ought to. It's been my life's work.

  Marie Dressler

  Men, Ought, Knows

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