Only a few things are really important.

- Marie Dressler

I'm too homely for a prima donna and too ugly for a soubrette.

- Marie Dressler

If a man is worth loving at all, he is worth loving generously, even recklessly.

- Marie Dressler

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

- Marie Dressler

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

- Marie Dressler

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…

- Marie Dressler

Character is what you have when nobody is looking.

- Marie Dressler

That's the unfortunate thing about death. It's so terribly final.

- Marie Dressler

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 w…

- Marie Dressler