A woman today is good, or she is bad, according to the way she does a thing - and not because of the thing itself.
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.
Being a motion picture actress is the pitch of ecstasy.
I always chose sophisticated parts because you can't really be interesting as a young girl or outstanding as an ingenue.
I can't do the Garbo or Dietrich thing.
I get whatever placidity I have from my father. But my mother taught me how to take it on the chin.
It is impossible to get anything made or accomplished without stepping on some toes; enemies are inevitable when one is a doer.
Never let them see you in public after you've turned thirty-five. You're finished if you do!
Somehow or other I always got myself rigged up in something sensational.
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 married ski instructor Martin Arrouge in 1942 and they remain married until her death in 1983.
Norma turned down the role of Mrs.Miniver in Mrs.Miniver, it would later go to Greer Garson.
Both of Norma's children died of cancer.
Norma turned down the role of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind. The role would later go to Vivian Leigh.
Norma's brother is the twelve time Academy award winning sound director Douglas Shearer.
Norma won a beauty contest at the age of fourteen.
Norma had a lazy eye and so often appeared in movie scenes with a hat that would shadow her lazy eye.
Norma is the only actress to be nominated for an Oscar for Best Actress twice in the same year, as the Oscar rules prior to 1930 dictated an actress could be nominated for two roles.
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