Quotes About Norma Shearer

#1. There was a saying around MGM: "Norma Shearer got the productions, Greta Garbo supplied the art, and Joan Crawford made the money to pay for both".

Joan Crawford

#2. All that time hanging around the sets, watching Norma Shearer make the most of her three expressions, was a help.

Joan Crawford

#3. we must not fret over things that are not in our control.

Ravi Subramanian

#4. I get whatever placidity I have from my father. But my mother taught me how to take it on the chin.

Norma Shearer

#5. You've got to live life to the fullest. You just enjoy every beautiful thing there is to enjoy.

Leah Chase

#6. For some people, becoming a parent does change them, but it never changed me.

Vinnie Jones

#7. You need to listen to the silence in order to hear the messages from universe..because beyond the silence there's more sounds connecting you with universal powers..

Gayan Fonseka

#8. It is impossible to get anything made or accomplished without stepping on some toes; enemies are inevitable when one is a doer.

Norma Shearer

#9. I am more stupid about some things than others; not equally stupid in all directions; I am not a well-rounded person.

Saul Bellow

#10. People are unhappy because they don't understand life; by happy, I mean complete, aware, conscious, poignant, caring, loving, unaffected, cosmic, simplistic, humble, excited, passive - everything. You are everything.

Frederick Lenz

#11. The morals of yesterday are no more. They are as dead as the day they were lived. Economic independence has put woman on exactly the same footing as man.

Norma Shearer

#12. I think it's real easy to be famous these days; it's not real easy to sustain success.

Jerry Jeff Walker

#13. You lose nothing when fighting for a cause ... In my mind the losers are those who don't have a cause they care about.

Muhammad Ali

#14. Being a motion picture actress is the pitch of ecstasy.

Norma Shearer

#15. I believe life is about balance. My mom was brilliant, yet manipulative. Beautiful, but had more voices in her head than the Wu-Tang Clan. Loves her kids, killed her last husband. I say last husband because you don't get another one after that.

Christopher Titus

#16. I always chose sophisticated parts because you can't really be interesting as a young girl or outstanding as an ingenue.

Norma Shearer

#17. Never let them see you in public after you've turned thirty-five. You're finished if you do!

Norma Shearer

#18. Me: Yes, I'd like some colon cleanse. It's something that cleans you out so your antidepressants work better.
Pharmacist: I think you're using your antidepressants wrong. They go in your mouth.

Jenny Lawson

#19. Keep in mind that angels do not belong to any one religion; they go beyond a single religion. The angels represent the Divine energy of God.

Terry Taylor

#20. Johnny James was sitting on the front porch, sipping from a glass of gasoline in the December heat, when the doom-screamer came.

Robert McCammon

#21. As long as God lets me live, I want to do things that make a difference in the world besides play music.

Randy Owen

#22. The old foundations of success are gone ... The world's wealthiest man, Bill Gates, owns nothing tangible: no land, no gold or oil, no factories ... For the first time in history the world's wealthiest man owns only knowledge.

Lester Thurow

#23. Scarlett O'Hara is going to be a thankless and difficult role. The part I'd like to play is Rhett Butler.

Norma Shearer

#24. It is all odd at first, and then it becomes normal - not because
it is normal, but because repetition uns the peculiar.

John Green

#25. A woman today is good, or she is bad, according to the way she does a thing - and not because of the thing itself.

Norma Shearer

#26. An adventure may be worn as a muddy spot or it may be worn as a proud insignia. It is the woman wearing it who makes it the one thing or the other.

Norma Shearer

#27. Somehow or other I always got myself rigged up in something sensational.

Norma Shearer