Mary Pickford quotes

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)
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. View quote
Mary Pickford
[Talking pictures are] like putting lip rouge on the Venus de Milo. View quote
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. View quote
Mary Pickford
Make them laugh, make them cry, and hack to laughter. What do people go to the theatre for? An emotional exercise. I am a servant of the people. I have never forgotten that. View quote
Mary Pickford
Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo. View quote
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. View quote
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. View quote
Mary Pickford
If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose. View quote
Mary Pickford
It would have been more logical if silent pictures had grown out of the talkies instead of the other way around. View quote
Mary Pickford
The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power. (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. View quote
Mary Pickford