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Marie Dressler
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Marie Dressler
Age: 62 †
Born: 1871
Born: November 9
Died: 1934
Died: July 28
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Leila Marie Koerber
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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.
Marie Dressler
In order to represent life on the stage, we must rub elbows with life, live ourselves
Marie Dressler
That's the unfortunate thing about death. It's so terribly final.
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
We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.
Marie Dressler
the human heart clings - even to its pain.
Marie Dressler
To know that one has never really tried - that is the only death
Marie Dressler
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.
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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.
Marie Dressler
Never one thing and seldom one person can make for a success. It takes a number of them merging into one perfect whole.
Marie Dressler
I enjoy reading biographies because I want to know about the people who messed up the world.
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Now I know that lawyers must live, but I've never been able to understand why they have to live so blamed well!
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You're only as good as your last picture.
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If ants are such busy workers, how come they find time to go to all the picnics?
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