Quotes by Marie Dressler

About Marie Dressler:

Marie Dressler was a Canadian American stage and screen actress and early silent film and Depression-era film star. Successful on stage in vaudeville and comic operas, she was also successful in film. In 1914, she was in the first full-length film comedy and later won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1931.
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

No vice is so bad as advice.

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

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

Marie Dressler

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

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

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

Marie Dressler

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

Marie Dressler

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

Marie Dressler

Author Bio

  • NameMarie Dressler
  • DescriptionActress
  • BornNovember 9, 1868
  • DiedJuly 28, 1934
  • CountryUnited States Of America; Canada
  • ProfessionActor; Film Actor; Film Producer
  • AwardsAcademy Award For Best Actress