Mary Pickford Quotes

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

Moving On, Failure, May

The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.
Mary Pickford

Future, Power, Past

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

Live, Young, Child

Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.
Mary Pickford

Movies, Sound, Lipstick

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.
Mary Pickford

Emotional, Laughter, Laugh

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

Around, Silent, Pictures

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

Great, Live, Lives

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Born: April 8, 1893

Died: May 29, 1979

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