Norma Shearer

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

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

Being a motion picture actress is the pitch of ecstasy.

I wish to be useful, and every kind of service necessary to the public good becomes honorable by being necessary.

There's a whole bunch of unfinished stuff. Then I've got books of lyrics. I find it frustrating to finish a song and not be able to record it... so I don't write a million songs.

I would've done anything to work with Satyajit Ray.