Norma Shearer Quotes

United States, Actress
August 11, 1902 – June, 12, 1983.

Edith Norma Shearer was a Canadian-American actress and Hollywood star from 1925 through 1942. Shearer often played spunky, sexually liberated ingenues. She appeared in adaptations of Noël Coward, Eugene O'Neill, and William Shakespeare, and was the first person to be nominated five times for an Academy Award for acting, winning Best Actress for her performance in the 1930 film The Divorcee.

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

Norma Shearer
- Take
- Taught
- Placid
Somehow or other I always got myself rigged up in something sensational.

Norma Shearer
- Got
- Sensational
- Rigged

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

Norma Shearer
- Enemies
- Accomplish
- Doer
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
- Moral
- Independence
An actress must never lose her ego - without it she has no talent.

Norma Shearer
- Talent
- Ego
- Actress
Never let them see you in public after you've turned 35. You're finished if you do!

Norma Shearer
- See
- Public
- Finish
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
- Adventure
- Spot
- Insignia

Being a motion picture actress is the pitch of ecstasy.

Norma Shearer
- Actress
- Motion
- Ecstasy
I always chose sophisticated parts because you can't really be interesting as a young girl or outstanding as an ingenue.

Norma Shearer