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If ants are such busy workers, how come they find time to go to all the picnics?
Marie Dressler
2.
Only a few things are really important.
Marie Dressler
3.
It is not how old you are, but how you are old.
Marie Dressler
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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.
Marie Dressler
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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
6.
If a man is worth loving at all, he is worth loving generously, even recklessly.
Marie Dressler
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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
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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
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I contend that every woman has the right to feel beautiful, no matter how scrambled her features, or how indifferent her features.
Marie Dressler
10.
By the time we've hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons
Marie Dressler
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Character is what you have when nobody is looking.
Marie Dressler
12.
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
13.
No vice is so bad as advice.
Marie Dressler
14.
That's the unfortunate thing about death. It's so terribly final.
Marie Dressler
15.
I have had a couple of marriages, but like every other woman I had a perfect right to them.
Marie Dressler
16.
In order to represent life on the stage, we must rub elbows with life, live ourselves
Marie Dressler
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You're only as good as your last picture.
Marie Dressler
18.
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
19.
I enjoy reading biographies because I want to know about the people who messed up the world.
Marie Dressler
20.
... the more you love what you do, the harder it is to do it well enough to get by yourself.
Marie Dressler
21.
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
22.
I never weep over lost money, for I figure I'd rather go to the poorhouse once than go there every day.
Marie Dressler
23.
We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.
Marie Dressler
24.
I'm too homely for a prima donna and too ugly for a soubrette.
Marie Dressler
25.
My instinct has always been to turn drawbacks into drawing cards.
Marie Dressler
26.
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
27.
If there's one thing I know, it's men. I ought to. It's been my life's work.
Marie Dressler
28.
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
29.
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
30.
To know that one has never really tried - that is the only death
Marie Dressler
31.
I'll have my double chins in privacy.
Marie Dressler
32.
I was born serious and I have earned my bread making other people laugh.
Marie Dressler
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the human heart clings - even to its pain.
Marie Dressler