Marie Dressler (1868–1934) 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. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1931.
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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
Topics: Age, Aging, Life
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
Topics: Success
It is not how old you are, but how you are old.
—Marie Dressler
Topics: Age, Aging
To know that one has never really tried—that is the only death.
—Marie Dressler
Topics: Trying
No vice is so bad as advice
—Marie Dressler
Topics: Vice
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