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Mary Pickford
6 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 (1892–1979) first seen 1926 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: How Mary Pickford Stays Young", Reader's Digest, Vol. 5 (1926); condensed from an interview in Everybody's Magazine (28 May 1926)
“[Talking pictures are] like putting lip rouge on the Venus de Milo.”
Mary Pickford (1892–1979) first seen 1934 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Associated Press, "Mary Pickford Sees Talkies as Lipstick on Milo", Los Angeles Times, 18 March 1934, p. 1. Cf. "Los Angeles Times", 20 March 1934, p. A4: "Talking pictures are like lip rouge on the Venus de Milo.
“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.”
Mary Pickford (1892–1979) first seen 1934 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Attributed (1934) in Eileen Whitfield, Pickford: The Woman Who Made Hollywood (1997), p. 269–270
“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 (1892–1979) first seen 1936 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Why Not Try God?", Chapter 6 (newspaper serial), appeared in St. Petersburg Times, 25 January 1936, sect. 2, p. 3
“Make them laugh, make them cry, and back to laughter. What do people go to the theater for? An emotional exercise. And no preachment.”
Mary Pickford (1892–1979) first seen 1968 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Kevin Brownlow, The Parade's Gone By ... (1968), p. 134
“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.”
Mary Pickford (1892–1979) first seen 1924 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Herbert Howe, "Mary Pickford's Favorite Stars and Films". Photoplay, January 1924, p. 28-29. (Photoplay Publishing Company).