Mary Pickford Quotes
106 Mary Pickford Quotes (United Artists Quotes) (Gladys Smith Quotes)
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The greatest successes are not accidental; they are designed.
Mary Pickford
This thing we call ‘failure’ is not the falling down, but the staying down.
Mary Pickford
If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you.
Mary Pickford
You may have a fresh start any moment you choose…
Mary Pickford
You cannot spend a large income wisely if you have not saved or handled a small one well.
Mary Pickford
The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.
Mary Pickford
I never asked for a raise except when I felt sure that I would get it, and I always got it.
Mary Pickford
No one ever worked for me. Nor did I ever work for anybody. We worked together.
Mary Pickford
[To director William Beaudine] Bill, I am the producer, I am the star – do you want me to be the director too? If I hadn’t thought you could do it, I wouldn’t have hired you. Now, let’s get back to work.
Mary Pickford
[On business with Charlie Chaplin] ‘Charlie, we ought to streamline the company and keep with the general trend of the times.’ But there was no moving him. I don’t think Charlie knew himself what he wanted… As we were 50-50 partners, I was completely stymied.
Mary Pickford
If you ask me, Hollywood needs a little of the old-time craziness.
Mary Pickford
Ovations, I have come to believe, are seldom or never according to persons, but to ideas.
Mary Pickford
The refined simplicity should develop out of the complex.
Mary Pickford
It is possible to save something, even if you have only fifteen dollars a week.
Mary Pickford
I can’t afford to work for only $10,000 a week.
Mary Pickford
What are you boys doing with my company?
Mary Pickford
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
Neither Douglas [Fairbanks] nor I will ever again take dictation from business men who sit in their mahogany offices back East, with their big cigars, seeking to control a business which they do not understand.
Mary Pickford
[On her mother having a choice to give her up for adoption in the hope of a better life for her after her father had passed away] A determination was born in me the day of our visit to Dr Smith that nothing could crush: I must try to take my father’s place in some mysterious way, and prevent anything from breaking up my family.
Mary Pickford
A spirit stronger than myself has always whipped me to action.
Mary Pickford
I would say that the important thing, and I think it is at least 33 1/3 percent important, is to get with the right associates. I took a cut in salary to be back at the Biograph Studio, and I have always felt that it was a wise move. When you feel that you are with the right concern, you give a good deal of yourself in order to become valuable to your employers.
Mary Pickford
I never asked for a raise except when I felt sure that I would get it, and I always got it. Mr Griffith has often said in talking about those days: ‘Marry was always the last one to leave the studio.’
Mary Pickford
In looking over my life, my only regret is that I didn’t work harder.
Mary Pickford
In my career on the screen, I have seen so many people come into pictures with preconceived ideas that were calculated to revolutionize the industry, and they went out quicker than they came.
Mary Pickford
A great deal of the adverse criticism and unfavorable advertising that Hollywood and the motion-picture business have had has been in large measure due to the sudden acquisition of a great deal of money on the part of a few person who never had it before. You cannot spend a large income wisely if you have not saved or handled a small one well.
Mary Pickford
I hated the world, ‘movie,’ and had hated it from the first minute that I saw it in the advertising of the Majestic Company, a rival company to the Biograph with which I worked. ‘A movie a minute,’ was their slogan.
Mary Pickford
It was not the fact of money alone, it was the principle of the thing that I did not like.
Mary Pickford
I am making on only one picture a year. A company which makes many pictures a year can pay much bigger salaries than I can.
Mary Pickford
‘Charlie,’ I would say, ‘We ought to streamline the company and keep with the general trend of the times.’ But there was no moving him. I don’t think Charlie knew himself what he wanted… It finally came to this: no matter what I proposed, or how I proposed it, Charlie would automatically, without giving the matter any consideration, flatly turn it down. As we were 50-50 partners, I was completely stymied.
Mary Pickford
Whenever I do something that seems pretty good, do you know what it is to me? It is a whip to beat myself with!
Mary Pickford
True, there are occasional accidents of career, but the greatest successes are not accidental; they are designed.
Mary Pickford
I left the screen because I didn’t want what happened to [Charlie] Chaplin to happen to me… The little girl made me. I wasn’t waiting for the little girl to kill me.
Mary Pickford
[On describing United Artists in February 1951] Sick unto death.
Mary Pickford
[On Arthur Krim and Robert Benjamin buying out Charlie Chaplin’s 25% share of United Artists for $1,113.287.35 in February 1955] God will reward you for adding twenty years to my life.
Mary Pickford
[To United Artists after the Charlie Chaplin buyout] I want the company to declare dividends and to give me a blank cheque for production.
Mary Pickford
[In 1918] Buy government bonds.
Mary Pickford
I am a servant of the public. I’ve never forgotten that.
Mary Pickford
[On getting in to see David Belasco] My life depends on seeing Mr Belasco!
Mary Pickford
[On being asked by David Belasco as a 12 year old ‘You want to become an actress?’] I’m already an actress. But now I want to become a good one.
Mary Pickford
To me, David Belasco was like the King of England, Julius Caesar and Napoleon all rolled into one.
Mary Pickford
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