Norma Shearer quotes:
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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.
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Being a motion picture actress is the pitch of ecstasy.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Somehow or other I always got myself rigged up in something sensational.
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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.
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An actress must never lose her ego -- without it she has no talent.
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Never let them see you in public after you've turned thirty-five. You're finished if you do!
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Never let them see you in public after you've turned 35. You're finished if you do!
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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.
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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.