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| Norma Shearer - Personal Quotes | |||
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"Never marry your first beau!"
"I had to marry a man bigger and more important in every way than myself. Only in such a marriage could I live without a sense of being cramped and confined."
"I would never consent to someone else playing me on the screen."
"I get whatever placidity I have from my father. But my mother taught me how to take it on the chin."
"Somehow or other I always got myself rigged up in something sensational."
"Never let them see you in public after you've turned thirty-five. You're finished if you do!"
"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."
"A woman today is good, or she is bad, according to the way she does a thing - and not because of the thing itself."
"I always chose sophisticated parts because you can't really be interesting as a young girl or outstanding as an ingenue."
"Being a motion picture actress is the pitch of ecstasy."
"I can't do the Garbo or Dietrich thing."
"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."
"I'm afraid my legs are not my best feature, Mr. Hurrell."
"It is impossible to get anything made or accomplished without stepping on some toes; enemies are inevitable when one is a doer."
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