Mary Pickford quotes

Mary Pickford was a Canadian-American actress and film producer, widely recognized as one of the most influential figures of early cinema. Known as "America's Sweetheart," she played a vital role in co-founding United Artists and shaping the Hollywood studio system. She became a pioneering force for women in the film industry and helped define modern stardom. Here are 12 of her quotes:

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.

Mary Pickford

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

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

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

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

Mary Pickford

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.

Mary Pickford

Make them laugh, make them cry, and back to laughter. What do people go to the theater for? An emotional exercise. And no preachment.

Mary Pickford

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

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

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