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Marie Dressler
9 quotes
“Fate cast me to play the role of an ugly duckling with no promise of swanning. Therefore, I sat down when a mere child—fully realizing just how utterly "mere" I was—and figured out my life early. Most people do it, but they do it too late. At any rate, from the beginning I have played my life as a comedy rather than the tragedy many would have made of it.”
Marie Dressler (1868–1934) first seen 1924 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Life Story of an Ugly Duckling (1924), Ch. 1
“... poor had no terror for me! It was pie for me! My whole life had been a fight!”
Marie Dressler (1868–1934) first seen 1924 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Life Story of an Ugly Duckling (1924), Ch. 5
“I was born serious and I have earned my bread making other people laugh.”
Marie Dressler (1868–1934) first seen 1934 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: My Own Story (1934), Ch. 1
“It is well enough to be interested in one's profession, but to restrict one's leisure to association with the members of one's guild, so to speak, is to be doomed to artificiality and eventually to sterility. In order to represent life on the stage, we must rub elbows with life, live ourselves.”
Marie Dressler (1868–1934) first seen 1934 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: My Own Story (1934), Ch. 3
“Love is not getting, but giving. It is sacrifice. And sacrifice is glorious! 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.”
Marie Dressler (1868–1934) first seen 1934 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: My Own Story (1934), Ch. 7
“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.”
Marie Dressler (1868–1934) first seen 1934 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: My Own Story (1934), Ch. 17
“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.”
Marie Dressler (1868–1934) first seen 1934 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: My Own Story (1934), Ch. 17
“If ants are such busy workers, how come they find time to go to all the picnics?”
Marie Dressler (1868–1934) said by 1934 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in Lore & Maurice Cowan, The Wit of Women (1969), p. 149
“A rut is like a grave – it's only a question of depth.”
Marie Dressler (1868–1934) said by 1934 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source