Marie Dressler Quotes

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

Only a few things are really important.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

No vice is so bad as advice.