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
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I was born serious and I have earned my bread making other people laugh.
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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.
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Any fact is better established by two or three good testimonies than by a thousand arguments.
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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.
character
Character is what you have when nobody is looking.
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To know that one has never really tried - that is the only death
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We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.
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There are very few persons who would think of inquiring into the private life of the newspaper dealer at the corner, or the druggist, or the doctor, or even a Mah Jong partner, but the moment one belongs to the theatrical profession, the public usually feels cheated unless it knows one's inmost thoughts of love.
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I'm too homely for a prima donna and too ugly for a soubrette.
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Never shall I forget those naked, clean-swept little Canadian towns, one just like the other. Before I was twelve years old, I must have lived in fifty of them.
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My instinct has always been to turn drawbacks into drawing cards.
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the human heart clings - even to its pain.
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If there's one thing I know, it's men. I ought to. It's been my life's work.
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Now I know that lawyers must live, but I've never been able to understand why they have to live so blamed well!