Quotes by Marie Dressler

Marie Dressler

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

Enough

Harder

Wells

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.

Birthday

Maturity

Turning 50

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

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Character is what you have when nobody is looking.

Character

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.

Fate

Play

Ugly Duckling

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

Beautiful

Indifferent

Matter

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

People

Reading

World

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

Couple

Marriage

Perfect

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.

Country

Doctors

Men

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.

Block

Dog

Horse

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Envy

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Fifty

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Funny Old Age Birthday

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Hardest

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Homely

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Quotes by Marie Dressler

Marie Dressler

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

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.

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

Character is what you have when nobody is looking.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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