Pickford Quotes

#1. In my day, the only people who achieved real independence were my father, Mary Pickford and Charles Chaplin, who, with D. W. Griffith, formed United Artists. Other than that, everybody belonged to the big studios. They had no say in their own careers.

Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

#2. I was 25 and the most popular celebrity in the world, with the possible exception of my friend Mary Pickford.

Gloria Swanson

#3. What Marie Antoinette was to eighteenth-century France, Mary Pickford is to twentieth-century America.

Frank Crowninshield

#4. Canadians send us great hockey players. You also send us wonderful performers, from the beginning, with Mary Pickford.

Jamie Farr

#5. 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

#6. I just try to write songs that people are going to have a dialogue about.

Beyonce Knowles

#7. Everyone rushes his life on, and suffers from a yearning for the future and a boredom with the present. But that man who devotes every hour to his own needs, who plans every day as if it were his last, neither longs for nor fears tomorrow.

Seneca The Younger

#8. Is an audience open to seeing a film that isn't what they expect when they see a film that's been adapted from a children's book?

Spike Jonze

#9. Failure is not falling down, it is not getting up again

Mary Pickford

#10. It's not the falling down that counts. It's the getting up.

Mary Pickford

#11. Today is a new day.You will get out of it just what you put into it.

Mary Pickford

#12. 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

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

Mary Pickford

#14. In the event you bungle elevating your sons or daughters, I do not imagine regardless of what else you are doing nicely issues very considerably.

Jackie Kennedy

#15. 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

#16. Crocodiles are easy,' Steve said. 'They try to kill and eat you. People are harder. Sometimes they pretend to be your friend first.

Terri Irwin

#17. 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

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

Mary Pickford

#19. What You Lose on the Swings You Make Up on the Merry-Go-Round,

George V. Higgins

#20. It is always the older that emanates the new one.

Wolfgang Pauli

#21. People assume that because I was brought up on Rolling Stones tours, and my father is who he is, I'm some kind of rock-and-roll bad girl.

Elizabeth Jagger

#22. I saw Hollywood born and I've seen it die.

Mary Pickford

#23. 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

#24. Those who never make mistakes lose a great many chances to learn something

Mary Pickford

#25. Just as the light of a candle has the power to dispel darkness in a room, so also the light developed in one man can help dispel darkness in several others.

Sayagyi U Ba Khin

#26. Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised.

Marilyn Manson

#27. 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

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

Mary Pickford

#29. Layer by layer I removed all I thought I was, all I thought I had to be and in the moment I was left standing naked and vulnerable without identities and labels, I remembered, I AM THAT I AM....

Lenita Vangellis

#30. You may have a fresh start anytime you choose.

Mary Pickford

#31. 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

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

Mary Pickford

#33. 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

#34. Our choices in life are made according to our sense of our own worth.

Kaylan Pickford