Marie Dressler Quotes

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I never weep over lost money, for I figure I'd rather go to the poorhouse once than go there every day.

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

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Never shall I forget those naked, clean-swept little Canadian towns, one just like the other. Before I was twelve years old, I must have lived in fifty of them.

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I enjoy reading biographies because I want to know about the people who messed up the world.

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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.'

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There are very few persons who would think of inquiring into the private life of the newspaper dealer at the corner, or the druggist, or the doctor, or even a Mah Jong partner, but the moment one belongs to the theatrical profession, the public usually feels cheated unless it knows one's inmost thoughts of love.

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

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My instinct has always been to turn drawbacks into drawing cards.

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

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To know that one has never really tried — that is the only death.

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Now I know that lawyers must live, but I've never been able to understand why they have to live so blamed well!

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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.

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

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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.

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