Marie Dressler Quotes

• Even the strongest man needs friends.

  Mario Puzo

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• I contend that every woman has the right to feel beautiful, no matter how scrambled her features, or how indifferent her features.

  Marie Dressler

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• 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.

  Marie Dressler

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

  Marie Dressler

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• Any fact is better established by two or three good testimonies than by a thousand arguments.

  Marie Dressler

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• Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.

  Mario Puzo

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• To know that one has never really tried – that is the only death.

  Marie Dressler

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

  Marie Dressler

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• No vice is so bad as advice.

  Marie Dressler

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Marie Dressler (9)

Birth:	9th November, 1868
Death:	28th July, 1934
Nationality:	Canadian
Profession:	Actress

About

Marie Dressler was a Canadian–American stage and screen actress and early silent film and Depression-era film star. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1930–31 for Min and Bill and played the titular role in the first full-length screen comedy, 1914's Tillie's Punctured Romance, opposite Charles Chaplin and Mabel Normand.

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Births

• 1936 - Wavy Gravy
• 1940 - Roger Ailes
• 1963 - Joseph Prince
• 1773 - Prince Metternich
• 1951 - Jonathan Richman

Deaths

• 1978 - Robert Menzies
• 1976 - Samuel Eliot Morison
• 1925 - Nelson A. Miles
• 1986 - Theodore H. White
• 1949 - Mary Antin