Quote#Children
Fate cast me to play the role of an ugly duckling with no promise of…
Quote byMarie Dressler · 1868–1934
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Life Story of an Ugly Duckling (1924), Ch. 1.
English (original)
Fate cast me to play the role of an ugly duckling with no promise of swanning. Therefore, I sat down when a mere child—fully realizing just how utterly "mere" I was—and figured out my life early. Most people do it, but they do it too late. At any rate, from the beginning I have played my life as a comedy rather than the tragedy many would have made of it.
— Marie Dressler
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