All quotations and phrases said by Mary Pickford including famous quotes

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

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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

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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

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

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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

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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

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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

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

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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

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