Marie Dressler
Marie Dressler
Marie Dresslerwas a Canadian-American stage and screen actress, comedian and early silent film and Depression-era film star. Successful on stage in vaudeville and comic operas, she was also successful in film. In 1914, she was in the first full-length film comedy and later won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1931...
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth9 November 1868
CityCobourg, Canada
unfortunate-things finals unfortunate
That's the unfortunate thing about death. It's so terribly final.
money lost figures
I never weep over lost money, for I figure I'd rather go to the poorhouse once than go there every day.
enough harder wells
... the more you love what you do, the harder it is to do it well enough to get by yourself.
privacy chins
I'll have my double chins in privacy.
country men doctors
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.
maturity turning-50 important
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.
advice vices
No vice is so bad as advice.
success differences envy
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.
reading people world
I enjoy reading biographies because I want to know about the people who messed up the world.
order elbows stage
In order to represent life on the stage, we must rub elbows with life, live ourselves
lasts haircuts
You're only as good as your last picture.
love men ifs
If a man is worth loving at all, he is worth loving generously, even recklessly.
dog horse block
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.
marriage couple perfect
I have had a couple of marriages, but like every other woman I had a perfect right to them.