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Norma Shearer Quotes

«It is impossible to get anything made or accomplished without stepping on some toes; enemies are inevitable when one is a doer.»
Author: Norma Shearer (Actress) | Keywords: doer, stepping, toes
«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.»
Author: Norma Shearer (Actress) | About: Adventure | Keywords: insignia, muddied, muddier, muddy, worn
«I get whatever placidity I have from my father. But my mother taught me how to take it on the chin.»
«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.»
Author: Norma Shearer (Actress) | About: Morality | Keywords: footing
«I always chose sophisticated parts because you can't really be interesting as a young girl or outstanding as an ingenue.»
«Never let them see you in public after you've turned thirty-five. You're finished if you do!»
Author: Norma Shearer (Actress) | About: Elderly | Keywords: in public, thirty-five
«Somehow or other I always got myself rigged up in something sensational.»
Author: Norma Shearer (Actress) | Keywords: rigged, sensational
«I can't do the Garbo or Dietrich thing.»
Author: Norma Shearer (Actress) | Keywords: Dietrich, Garbo
«Being a motion picture actress is the pitch of ecstasy.»
Author: Norma Shearer (Actress) | About: Actors and acting | Keywords: pitch
«I'm afraid my legs are not my best feature, Mr. Hurrell.»