Marie Dressler Quotes

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

"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

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

"Any fact is better established by two or three good testimonies than by a thousand arguments."
-Marie Dressler in Arguments quotes.

"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

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