Mary Pickford

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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 "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. And 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.

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.

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.

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