Mary Pickford Quotations

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.

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.

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.

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

The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.

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.

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

There is always another chance... This thing called 'failure' is not falling down, but staying down.

Supposing you have tried and failed again and again. 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.

If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you. 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.

If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down.

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

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.

Failure is not falling down, it is not getting up again

You may have a fresh start anytime you choose.

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

Failure is not the falling down but the staying down.

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

...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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Today is a new day. You will get out of it just what you put into it...If you have made mistakes, even serious mistakes, there is always another chance for you. And supposing you have tried and failed again and again, 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.