The Eminent American Comedienne Marie D...
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“I was born serious and I have earned my bread making other people laugh.”
Source: The Eminent American Comedienne Marie Dressler in The Life Story of an Ugly Duckling: An Autobiographical Fragment in Seven Parts
“I enjoy reading biographies because I want to know about the people who messed up the world.”
“My instinct has always been to turn drawbacks into drawing cards.”
Source: The Eminent American Comedienne Marie Dressler in The Life Story of an Ugly Duckling: An Autobiographical Fragment in Seven Parts
“I have had a couple of marriages, but like every other woman I had a perfect right to them.”
Source: The Eminent American Comedienne Marie Dressler in The Life Story of an Ugly Duckling: An Autobiographical Fragment in Seven Parts
Source: The Eminent American Comedienne Marie Dressler in The Life Story of an Ugly Duckling: An Autobiographical Fragment in Seven Parts
“... the more you love what you do, the harder it is to do it well enough to get by yourself.”
“If ants are such busy workers, how come they find time to go to all the picnics?”
“That's the unfortunate thing about death. It's so terribly final.”
“If there's one thing I know, it's men. I ought to. It's been my life's work.”
“I'm too homely for a prima donna and too ugly for a soubrette.”
“To know that one has never really tried - that is the only death”
“In order to represent life on the stage, we must rub elbows with life, live ourselves”
“By the time we've hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons”
“If a man is worth loving at all, he is worth loving generously, even recklessly.”
“We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.”