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
(Related: May)

"Supposing you have tried and failed again and again. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down."
- Mary Pickford
(Related: May)

"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
(Related: People, Exercise, Laughter, Theatre)

"It would have been more logical if silent pictures had grown out of the talkies instead of the other way around."
- Mary Pickford
"If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down."
- Mary Pickford
(Related: Chance, May, Mistakes)

"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
(Related: Now, Order, Years)

"Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo."
- Mary Pickford
(Related: Movies, Sound)

"The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power."
- Mary Pickford
(Related: Power, Future, Past)