Marie Dressler

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

“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.”

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

“We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.”

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

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

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

“No vice is so bad as advice.”

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