Quotes By Norma Shearer

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Being a motion picture actress is the pitch of ecstasy.