Marie Dressler

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

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

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

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

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

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.

No vice is so bad as advice.

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

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

Only a few things are really important.

By the time we hit 50, 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.

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