Norma Shearer Quotes

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.

Being a motion picture actress is the pitch of ecstasy.

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.

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

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

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

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

An actress must never lose her ego — without it she has no talent.

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