Mary Pickford Quotes

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You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.

Mary Pickford
It would have been more logical if silent pictures had grown out of the talkies instead of the other way around.

Mary Pickford
I am no longer in pictures for money. I am in them because I love them. I am not in vain. I do not care about giving a smashing personal performance. My one ambition is to create fine entertainment.

Mary Pickford
Make them laugh, make them cry, and back to laughter. What do people go to the theater for? An emotional exercise. And no preachment.

Mary Pickford
[Talking pictures are] like putting lip rouge on the Venus de Milo.

Mary Pickford
One of the great penalties those of us who live our lives in full view of the public must pay is the loss of that most cherished birthright of man's, privacy.

Mary Pickford
The refined simplicity should develop out of the complex. [...] It would have been more logical if silent pictures had grown out of the talkie instead of the other way around.

Mary Pickford
I was forced to live far beyond my years when just a child, now I have reversed the order and I intend to remain young indefinitely.

Mary Pickford
I'm thirteen years old, and I think I'm at the crossroads of my life. I've got to make good between now and the time I'm twenty, and I have only seven years to do it in. Besides, I'm the father of my family and I've got to earn all the money I can.

Mary Pickford