47 Quotes by Marie Dressler

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

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

I was born serious and I have earned my bread making other people laugh.

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.

I'm too homely for a prima donna and too ugly for a soubrette.

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.

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

the human heart clings - even to its pain.

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