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Marie Dressler Biography

Marie Dressler (born Leila Marie Koerber, November 9, 1868 – July 28, 1934) was a Canadian-American stage and screen actress, comedian, and early silent film and Depression-era film star. Successful on stage in vaudeville and comic operas, she was also successful in film. In 1914, she was in the first full-length film comedy and later won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1931.

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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.

Lovers, Men, Middle, Regret, Thinking, Women

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.

Cast, Comedy, Fate, Play, Ugly Duckling

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

Fifty, Funny Old Age Birthday, Life, Seriously, Take, Turning 50

It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

Age, Birthday, Old, Wisdom

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

Know, Knows, Men, Ought, Thing

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

Elbows, Order, Stage

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

Generously, Ifs, Love, Loving, Man, Men

There is a vast difference between success at twenty-five and success at sixty. At sixty, nobody envies you. Instead, everybody rejoices generously, sincerely, in your good fortune.

Differences, Envy, Good, Rejoices, Sixty, Success

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

Inspirational, Numbers, Perfect, Person, Seldom, Success

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

Able, Know, Lawyer, Lawyers, Understand, Wells

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

Fifty, Hardest, Hit, Lessons

Character is what you have when nobody is looking.

Character, Looking, Nobody

That's the unfortunate thing about death. It's so terribly final.

Death, Final, Finals, Unfortunate, Unfortunate Things

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

Cards, Challenges, Drawbacks, Drawing, Instinct, Turn

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.

Naked, Old, Towns, Twelve, Years

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

Ants, Picnics, Time, Workers

Only a few things are really important.

Funny, Happiness, Life, Things

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.

Block, Dog, Gone, Horse, Say

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.

Birthday, Hardest, Life, Maturity, Take, Turning 50

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

Bread, Earned, Laugh, Laughing, People, Serious

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