Emma: [to Matilda] If you intend to work in the swell, smart families, you've got to learn to be deaf and blind. It isn't enough that you should just be dumb.

- Marie Dressler in Emma (1932)

Emma: I have a voice that only a deaf mother could love.

- Marie Dressler in Emma (1932)

Emma: Stop calling me beautiful!

- Marie Dressler in Emma (1932)