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

Woman, May, Proud

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

Parenting, Mother, Father

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

Made, Impossible, Inevitable

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

Good, Today, Bad

Being a motion picture actress is the pitch of ecstasy.
Norma Shearer

Picture, Actress, Ecstasy

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

After, Public, Finished

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

Somehow, Rigged

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

Woman, Same, Put

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Biography

Nationality: American

Born: August 10, 1900

Died: June 12, 1983

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