Norma Shearer Quotes
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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
Being a motion picture actress is the pitch of ecstasy.
— Norma Shearer
I get whatever placidity I have from my father. But my mother taught me how to take it on the chin.
— Norma Shearer
Disaster unites families, not excess.
— Madeleine Henry
The truth about the Costa del Sol is that what endures, what is worthwhile, is what is Spanish.
— David Hewson
There was a saying around MGM: "Norma Shearer got the productions, Greta Garbo supplied the art, and Joan Crawford made the money to pay for both".
— Joan Crawford
Never let them see you in public after you've turned thirty-five. You're finished if you do!
— Norma Shearer
It is impossible to get anything made or accomplished without stepping on some toes; enemies are inevitable when one is a doer.
— Norma Shearer
He preferred yielding his own wish to gratify others, rather than to insist upon having his own way.
— Ulysses S. Grant
The object of mathematical rigor is to sanction and legitimize the conquests of intuition, and there was never any other object for it.
— Jacques Hadamard
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
All that time hanging around the sets, watching Norma Shearer make the most of her three expressions, was a help.
— Joan Crawford
In real life, it takes only one to make a quarrel.
— Ogden Nash
My grandparents told endless stories about the town they were from. It became an almost mythic place.
— Vincent Schiavelli
I have sons, and they have never said the word hell in front of me or my wife. That's the truth.
— Danny Aiello
IT was the time of day when Lake Eden residents decided it was too late for a breakfast cookie and too early for a lunch cookie.
— Joanne Fluke
Scarlett O'Hara is going to be a thankless and difficult role. The part I'd like to play is Rhett Butler.
— Norma Shearer
The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity.
— Carl Clinton Van Doren
Among the songs I love best were those that I see as historically important, and helped change and develop my taste.
— Seymour Stein
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
I didn't do what they said I did. I may have done enough so that I don't know if I can prove my innocence.
— Dick Morris
History is more or less bunk.
— Henry Ford