Mary Pickford
Mary Pickford
Gladys Louise Smith, known professionally as Mary Pickford, was a Canadian-American motion picture actress, writer, director and producer. She was co-founder of the film studio United Artists and one of the original 36 founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth8 April 1892
CityToronto, Canada
CountryCanada
Mary Pickford quotes about
grown instead
It would have been more logical if silent pictures had grown out of the talkies instead of the other way around.
failure falling staying
There is always another chance... This thing called 'failure' is not falling down, but staying down.
venus-de-milo talking lips
[Talking pictures are] like putting lip rouge on the Venus de Milo.
simplicity way silent
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.
birthday children years
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.
fresh-start may you-choose
You may have a fresh start anytime you choose.
loss cutting men
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.
encouraging perseverance encouragement
Failure is not the falling down but the staying down.
happiness laughter exercise
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.
movie venus-de-milo would-be
Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.
new-day today today-is-a-new-day
Today is a new day.You will get out of it just what you put into it.
father responsibility thinking
...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.
mistake learning chance
Those who never make mistakes lose a great many chances to learn something
girl country vampire
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.