Norma Shearer Quotes

• 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

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• 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

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

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

  Norma Shearer

  Ego, Acting, Actresses

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• 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

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

  Norma Shearer

  Finished, Ifs

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Norma Shearer

  Sensational, Rigged

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• Being a motion picture actress is the pitch of ecstasy.

  Norma Shearer

  Actresses, Motion Pictures, Ecstasy

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