Norma Shearer
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.Collection: Independence
I get whatever placidity I have from my father. But my mother taught me how to take it on the chin.Collection: Parenting
It is impossible to get anything made or accomplished without stepping on some toes; enemies are inevitable when one is a doer.
Somehow or other I always got myself rigged up in something sensational.
Being a motion picture actress is the pitch of ecstasy.
A woman today is good, or she is bad, according to the way she does a thing - and not because of the thing itself.
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.
Never let them see you in public after you've turned thirty-five. 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.Collection: Play
Never let them see you in public after you've turned 35. You're finished if you do!Collection: Finished
An actress must never lose her ego -- without it she has no talent.Collection: Ego
I always chose sophisticated parts because you can't really be interesting as a young girl or outstanding as an ingenue.Collection: Girl