Norma Shearer

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

— Norma Shearer

#chin #father #get #how #i

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

#makes #may #muddy #one thing #other

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

— Norma Shearer

#anything #doer #get #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

#bad #because #does #good #itself

Being a motion picture actress is the pitch of ecstasy. ↗

— Norma Shearer

#being #ecstasy #motion #motion picture #picture

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

— Norma Shearer

#finished #never #public #see #them

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

— Norma Shearer

#got #i #i always #myself #other

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

#dead #economic #economic independence #exactly #footing