Mary Pickford Quotes

If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose.

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.

[Talking pictures are] like putting 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.

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.