Norma Shearer
Norma Shearer
Edith Norma Shearerwas a Canadian-American actress and a major Hollywood star from 1925 through 1942. Her early films cast her as a spunky ingenue, but in the pre-Code film era, she played sexually liberated women. She excelled in drama, comedy, and period roles. She gave well-received performances in adaptations of Noël Coward, Eugene O'Neill, and William Shakespeare. She was nominated six times for the Academy Award for Best Actress and won once, for her performance in the 1930 film The...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth10 August 1902
CityMontreal, Canada
CountryUnited States of America
I can't do the Garbo or Dietrich thing.
Never let them see you in public after you've turned thirty-five. You're finished if you do!
An actress must never lose her ego -- without it she has no talent.
I always chose sophisticated parts because you can't really be interesting as a young girl or outstanding as an ingenue.
Being a motion picture actress is the pitch of ecstasy.
Never let them see you in public after you've turned 35. You're finished if you do!
A woman today is good, or she is bad, according to the way she does a thing - and not because of the thing itself.
I get whatever placidity I have from my father. But my mother taught me how to take it on the chin.
It is impossible to get anything made or accomplished without stepping on some toes; enemies are inevitable when one is a doer.
The morals of yesterday are no more. They are as dead as the day they were lived. Economic independence has put woman on exactly the same footing as man.
Somehow or other I always got myself rigged up in something sensational.
Scarlett O'Hara is going to be a thankless and difficult role. The part I'd like to play is Rhett Butler.
An adventure may be worn as a muddy spot or it may be worn as a proud insignia. It is the woman wearing it who makes it the one thing or the other.
I'm afraid my legs are not my best feature, Mr. Hurrell.