Never let them see you in public after you've turned 35. You're finished if you do!

- Norma Shearer

Being a motion picture actress is the pitch of ecstasy.

- Norma Shearer

A woman today is good, or she is bad, according to the way she does a thing - and not because of the thing itself.

- Norma Shearer

I always chose sophisticated parts because you can't really be interesting as a young girl or outstanding as an ingenue.

- Norma Shearer

I get whatever placidity I have from my father. But my mother taught me how to take it on the chin.

- Norma Shearer

It is impossible to get anything made or accomplished without stepping on some toes; enemies are inevitable when one is a doer.

- Norma Shearer

An actress must never lose her ego -- without it she has no talent.

- Norma Shearer

Somehow or other I always got myself rigged up in something sensational.

- Norma Shearer

Scarlett O'Hara is going to be a thankless and difficult role. The part I'd like to play is Rhett Butler.

- Norma Shearer