Norma Shearer movie quotes

“An actress must never lose her ego - without it she has no talent.”
Norma Shearer

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

“- Mrs. Stephen Haines - Mary: May I suggest, if you're dressing to please Stephen, not that one. He doesn't like such obvious effects.
- Crystal Allen: Thanks for the tip. But when anything I wear doesn't please Stephen, I take it off.”
Norma Shearer - Mrs. Stephen Haines - Mary
Joan Crawford - Crystal Allen

“I'm scared of comedy. I thinks it demands stage experience and I've never been before the footlights. I wish I had. Do you know, I have a curious recurrent dream that I am in a stage play and most embarrassed - like those dreams when one is caught in extreme negligee in some public place.”
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.”
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.”
Norma Shearer

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

“- Mrs. Phelps Potter - Edith: You're so slim, I could kill you.
- Mrs. Stephen Haines - Mary: You don't have to. The diet I'm on is pure poison.”
Phyllis Povah - Mrs. Phelps Potter - Edith
Norma Shearer - Mrs. Stephen Haines - Mary

- Mrs. John Day - Peggy: Listen to the wheels, don't they seem to be saying something?
- Mrs. Stephen Haines - Mary: No.
- Mrs. John Day - Peggy: Don't they seem to be saying "Go back, go back, go back, go back?".

Joan Fontaine - Mrs. John Day - Peggy
Norma Shearer - Mrs. Stephen Haines - Mary

“- Mrs. Howard Fowler - Sylvia: Mary Haines, don't you have any pride?
- Mrs. Stephen Haines - Mary: No pride at all. That's a luxury a woman in love can't afford.”
Rosalind Russell - Mrs. Howard Fowler - Sylvia
Norma Shearer - Mrs. Stephen Haines - Mary