Marie Dressler Quotes

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

Only a few things are really important.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

Character is what you have when nobody is looking.

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.

No vice is so bad as advice.

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

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

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.

You're only as good as your last picture.

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

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

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

... the more you love what you do, the harder it is to do it well enough to get by yourself.

I never weep over lost money, for I figure I'd rather go to the poorhouse once than go there every day.

We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

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

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.

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

I'll have my double chins in privacy.

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

the human heart clings - even to its pain.

Now I know that lawyers must live, but I've never been able to understand why they have to live so blamed well!

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