Cecil B. DeMille Quotes & Sayings

Now, public libraries are most admirable institutions, but they have one irritating custom. They want their books back. — Cecil B. DeMille

I might have remembered what my father once wrote to Henry George, I never do anything by halves, and am half hearted in no cause that I embrace. — Cecil B. DeMille

After more than sixty years of almost daily reading of the Bible, I never fail to find it always new and marvelously in tune with the changing needs of every day. — Cecil B. DeMille

I make my pictures for people, not for critics. — Cecil B. DeMille

God gave us free agency, and then gave us the commandments to keep us free. — Cecil B. DeMille

The Bible has been a bestseller for centuries. Why should I let two thousand years of publicity go to waste? — Cecil B. DeMille

I win my awards at the box office. — Cecil B. DeMille

The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication. — Cecil B. DeMille

Creativity is a drug I cannot live without. — Cecil B. DeMille

Man has made 32 million laws since the Commandments were handed down to Moses on Mount Sinai ... but he has never improved on God's law. — Cecil B. DeMille

Creation is a drug I can't do without. — Cecil B. DeMille

Our modern world defined God as a 'religious complex' and laughed at the Ten Commandments as OLD FASHIONED. Then, through the laughter came the shattering thunder of the World War. And now a blood-drenched, bitter world - no longer laughing - cries for a way out. There is but one way out. It existed before it was engraven upon Tablets of Stone. It will exist when stone has crumbled. The Ten Commandments are not rules to obey as a personal favor to God. They are the fundamental principles without which mankind cannot live together. They are not laws - they are The Law. — Cecil B. DeMille

There can be no liberty without the law. — Cecil B. DeMille

It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselves against the law. — Cecil B. DeMille

Every time I make a picture the critics' estimate of American public taste goes down ten percent. — Cecil B. DeMille

The greatest art in the world is the art of storytelling, — Cecil B. DeMille

The public is always right. — Cecil B. DeMille

A dozen press agents working overtime can do terrible things to the human spirit. — Cecil B. DeMille

Give me any two pages of the Bible and I'll give you a picture. — Cecil B. DeMille

As a boy, I used to look upon the hieroglyphics as so many wonderful pictures. — Cecil B. DeMille

What I have crossed out I didn't like. What I haven't crossed out I'm dissatisfied with. — Cecil B. DeMille