Quotes by Mary Pickford

“The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.”

“[Talking pictures are] like putting lip rouge on the Venus de Milo.”

“If you have made mistakes even serious mistakes there is always another chance for you.”

“If you have made mistakes even serious ones there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down.”

“Supposing you have tried and failed again and again. 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.”

“Today is a new day. You will get out of it just what you put into it. . . If you have made mistakes even serious mistakes there is always another chance for you. . . . for this thing that we call...”

“If you have made mistakes even serious mistakes there is always another chance for you.”

“If you have made mistakes even serious ones there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down.”

“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.”

“Today is a new day. You will get out of it just what you put into it. ... If you have made mistakes even serious mistakes there is always another chance for you. And supposing you have tried and fa...”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”