Quotes from 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.

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

Never one thing and seldom one person can make for a success. It takes a number of them merging into one perfect whole.

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.

We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I have no patience with women who measure and weigh their love like a country doctor dispensing capsules. If a man is worth loving at all, he is worth loving generously, even recklessly.

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

No vice is so bad as advice.

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

Only a few things are really important.

Only a few things are really important.

What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind- the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other that has always been my firm faith about friendship.

What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind- the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other; that has always been my firm faith about friendship.