Marie Dressler

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

— Marie Dressler

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

— Marie Dressler

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

— Marie Dressler

There are very few persons who would think of inquiring into the private life of the newspaper dealer at the corner, or…

— Marie Dressler

I never ride horseback now because my sympathy with the under-dog is too keen. After we have a gone a few blocks,…

— Marie Dressler

Fate cast me to play the role of an ugly duckling with no promise of swanning. . . . I have played…

— Marie Dressler

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

— Marie Dressler

No vice is so bad as advice.

— Marie Dressler

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

— Marie Dressler

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

— Marie Dressler

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

— Marie Dressler

Never shall I forget those naked, clean-swept little Canadian towns, one just like the other. Before I was twelve years old, I…

— Marie Dressler

Only a few things are really important.

— Marie Dressler

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

— Marie Dressler

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

— Marie Dressler

Character is what you have when nobody is looking.

— Marie Dressler

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

— Marie Dressler

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

— Marie Dressler

The world doesn't go around on love between men and women. Lovers get very little done. But friends do. When you are…

— Marie Dressler

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

— Marie Dressler

You're only as good as your last picture.

— Marie Dressler

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

— Marie Dressler

By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are…

— Marie Dressler

the human heart clings - even to its pain.

— Marie Dressler

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

— Marie Dressler