Marie Dressler Quotes

“Any fact is better established by two or three good testimonies than by a thousand arguments.”

— Marie Dressler

“I contend that every woman has the right to feel beautiful, no matter how scrambled her features, or how indifferent her features.”

— Marie Dressler

“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

“In order to represent life on the stage, we must rub elbows with life, live ourselves.”

— Marie Dressler

“If ants are such busy workers, how come they find time to go to all the picnics?”

— Marie Dressler

“No vice is so bad as advice.”

— Marie Dressler

“To know that one has never really tried - that is the only death.”

— Marie Dressler

By the time we've hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons.

— Marie Dressler

“Only a few things are really important.”

— Marie Dressler

“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 ...”

— Marie Dressler

“Never one thing and seldom one person can make for a success. It takes a number of them merging into one perfect whole.”

— Marie Dressler

“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.”

— Marie Dressler

“I have had a couple of marriages, but like every other woman I had a perfect right to them.”

— Marie Dressler

“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.”

— Marie Dressler

“If a man is worth loving at all, he is worth loving generously, even recklessly.”

— Marie Dressler

I enjoy reading biographies because I want to know about the people who messed up the world.

— Marie Dressler

“I was born serious and I have earned my bread making other people laugh.”

— Marie Dressler

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.

— Marie Dressler

“Character is what you have when nobody is looking.”

— Marie Dressler

“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

I'll have my double chins in privacy.

— Marie Dressler

“The more you love what you do, the harder it is to do it well enough to get by yourself.”

— Marie Dressler

“I never weep over lost money, for I figure I'd rather go to the poorhouse once than go there every day.”

— Marie Dressler

“That's the unfortunate thing about death. It's so terribly final.”

— Marie Dressler

“Now I know that lawyers must live, but I've never been able to understand why they have to live so blamed well!”

— Marie Dressler

“If there's one thing I know, it's men. I ought to. It's been my life's work.”

— Marie Dressler

The human heart clings - even to its pain.

— Marie Dressler

My instinct has always been to turn drawbacks into drawing cards.

— Marie Dressler

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.

— Marie Dressler

“I'm too homely for a prima donna and too ugly for a soubrette.”

— Marie Dressler