47 Quotes by Marie Dressler

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

The world doesn't go around on love between men and women. Lovers get very little done. But friends do. When you are past middle life -- and I hope you have the rich experience of love along the way -- don't think everything is all over. Don't regret the vanished cocktail when the stuffed turkey is about to come in. Flip out your napkin and bite into it! Friends you can gather around you in the later years of life are worth the whole thing ...

Only a few things are really important.

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