Mary Pickford Quotes

• 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.

  Mary Pickford

  Mistake, Fall, New Day

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

  Mary Pickford

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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

  Mary Pickford

  Mistake, Learning, Chance

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• 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

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Why Not Try God?", Chapter 6 (newspaper serial) in St. Petersburg Times, sect. 2, p. 3, news.google.com. January 25, 1936.

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

  Mary Pickford

  New Day, Today, Today Is A New Day

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• "Failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.

  Mary Pickford

  Encouraging, Perseverance, Encouragement

  "Why Not Try God?". "St. Petersburg Times" Newspaper, sect. 2, (p. 3), January 25, 1936.

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• 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

  Happiness, Laughter, Exercise

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Birthday, Children, Order

  "How Mary Pickford Stays Young", Reader's Digest, Vol. 5, 1926.

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

  Mary Pickford

  Movie, Venus De Milo, Sound Doctrine

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Mary Pickford

  Fall, Falling Down

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

  Mary Pickford

  Hollywood, Saws, Born

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Mary Pickford

  Mistake, Starting Over, Another Chance

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• 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

  Simplicity, Way, Silent

  "Pickford: The Woman Who Made Hollywood". Book by Eileen Whitfield, 1997.

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• You may have a fresh start anytime you choose.

  Mary Pickford

  May, Fresh Start, You Choose

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• 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

  Heart, Cutting, Thinking

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

  Mary Pickford

  Fall, Falling Down

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• 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

  Girl, Country, Vampire

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• ...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

  Father, Responsibility, Thinking

  Mary Pickford (1955). “Sunshine and shadow”

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• 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

  Loss, Cutting, Men

  Mary Pickford (1955). “Sunshine and shadow”

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

  Mary Pickford

  Venus De Milo, Talking, Lips

  "Mary Pickford Sees Talkies as Lipstick on Milo". Los Angeles Times, p. 1. Cf. "Los Angeles Times", 20 March 1934, p. A4: "Talking pictures are like lip rouge on the Venus de Milo.", March 18, 1934.

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