Mary Pickford Quotes & Sayings

I saw Hollywood born and I've seen it die. — Mary Pickford

Today is a new day.You will get out of it just what you put into it. — Mary Pickford

I think Oscar Wilde wrote a poem about a robin who loved a white rose. He loved it so much that he pierced his breast and let his heart's blood turn the white rose red. Maybe this sounds very sentimental, but for anybody who has loved a career as much as I've loved mine, there can be no short cuts. — Mary Pickford

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

Those who never make mistakes lose a great many chances to learn something — Mary Pickford

If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you. You can start over any moment you choose. — Mary Pickford

I'm thirteen years old, and I think I'm at the crossroads of my life. I've got to make good between now and the time I'm twenty, and I have only seven years to do it in. Besides, I'm the father of my family and I've got to earn all the money I can. — Mary Pickford

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

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

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

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

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

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

Failure is not falling down, it is not getting up again — Mary Pickford

It's not the falling down that counts. It's the getting up. — Mary Pickford

After Theda Bara appeared in A Fool There Was, a vampire wave surged over the country. Women appeared in vampire gowns, pendant earrings, and even young girls were attempting to change from frank, open-eyed ingenues to the almond-eyed, carmine-lipped woman of subtlety and mystery. — Mary Pickford

If you have made mistakes, even serious mistakes, 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

You may have a fresh start anytime you choose. — Mary Pickford