Dressler Quotes

#1. I'm looking forward to becoming a marvelous - excuse the word marvelous - character actress. like Marie Dressler, like Will Rogers.

Marilyn Monroe

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

Marie Dressler

#3. 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

#4. I'm too homely for a prima donna and too ugly for a soubrette.

Marie Dressler

#5. The human heart clings - even to its pain.

Marie Dressler

#6. I'll have my double chins in privacy.

Marie Dressler

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. No vice is so bad as advice.

Marie Dressler

#10. 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

#11. That's the unfortunate thing about death. It's so terribly final.

Marie Dressler

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

Marie Dressler

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

Marie Dressler

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

Marie Dressler

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

Marie Dressler

#16. I was born serious and I have earned my bread making other people laugh.

Marie Dressler

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

Marie Dressler

#18. Character is what you have when nobody is looking.

Marie Dressler

#19. Only a few things are really important.

Marie Dressler

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

Marie Dressler

#21. Daniel 12:3 ... and those who turn the many to righteousness will shine the stars forever.

Craig W. Dressler

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

Marie Dressler

#23. 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

#24. 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

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

Marie Dressler

#26. If a man is worth loving at all, he is worth loving generously, even recklessly.

Marie Dressler

#27. 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

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

Marie Dressler

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

Marie Dressler

#30. However, the outcome is inconsistent with the general principle that people should not be punished in the absence of culpability, since one who acts on the basis of a reasonable mistake of law lacks moral blameworthiness.

Joshua Dressler

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

Marie Dressler