Norma Shearer Quotations

It is impossible to get anything made or accomplished without stepping on some toes; enemies are inevitable when one is a doer.

A woman today is good, or she is bad, according to the way she does a thing - and not because of the thing itself.

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

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.

Being a motion picture actress is the pitch of ecstasy.

Never let them see you in public after you've turned thirty-five. You're finished if you do!

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 get whatever placidity I have from my father. But my mother taught me how to take it on the chin.

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

I can't do the Garbo or Dietrich thing.

I'm afraid my legs are not my best feature, Mr. Hurrell.

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 35. You're finished if you do!

Scarlett O'Hara is going to be a thankless and difficult role. The part I'd like to play is Rhett Butler.