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
beautiful matter indifferent
I contend that every woman has the right to feel beautiful, no matter how scrambled her features, or how indifferent her features.
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It is not how old you are, but how you are old.
fate ugly-duckling play
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.
inspirational numbers perfect
Never one thing and seldom one person can make for a success. It takes a number of them merging into one perfect whole.
fifty lessons hardest
By the time we've hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons
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If ants are such busy workers, how come they find time to go to all the picnics?
regret past love-is
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 ...
live-life turning-50 important
Only a few things are really important.