Marie Dressler

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Lived: 1868 – 1934
Era: Late 19th–early 20th century
Place: Cobourg, Ontario, Canada

Canadian-born comic actress of stage and screen and an Academy Award winner; she told her story in The Life Story of an Ugly Duckling (1924).

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From the beginning, I have played my life as comedy rather than the tragedy many would have made of it.
— Marie DresslerFamous Actors
My instinct has always been to turn drawbacks into drawing cards.
— Marie DresslerFamous Actors
A smile and kind word will gain more than a dollar.
— Marie DresslerFamous Actors
It is better to put oneself in the place of another than to condemn, for nobody knows what he would do under unusual circumstances.
— Marie DresslerFamous Actors
I look for kindness and expect kindness, and I get it.
— Marie DresslerFamous Actors
I do not like a fight, but if one comes, I shall give it a hug and a kiss.
— Marie DresslerFamous Actors