Norma Shearer famous quotes

03-24-2025

An adventure may be worn as a muddy spot or it may be worn as a proud insignia. It is the woman wearing it who makes it the one thing or the other.
-- Norma Shearer

#Travel #Adventure #May
Scarlett O'Hara is going to be a thankless and difficult role. The part I'd like to play is Rhett Butler.
-- Norma Shearer

#Play #Roles #Butlers
I get whatever placidity I have from my father. But my mother taught me how to take it on the chin.
-- Norma Shearer

#Mother #Father #Parenting
It is impossible to get anything made or accomplished without stepping on some toes; enemies are inevitable when one is a doer.
-- Norma Shearer

#Enemy #Doers #Toes
Never let them see you in public after you've turned 35. You're finished if you do!
-- Norma Shearer
An actress must never lose her ego -- without it she has no talent.
-- Norma Shearer

#Ego #Acting #Actresses
Being a motion picture actress is the pitch of ecstasy.
-- Norma Shearer

#Actresses #Motion Pictures #Ecstasy
I always chose sophisticated parts because you can't really be interesting as a young girl or outstanding as an ingenue.
-- Norma Shearer

#Girl #Interesting #Sophisticated
The morals of yesterday are no more. They are as dead as the day they were lived. Economic independence has put woman on exactly the same footing as man.
-- Norma Shearer

#Men #Yesterday #Independence
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

#Doe #Today #Way
Somehow or other I always got myself rigged up in something sensational.
-- Norma Shearer

#Sensational #Rigged

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