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Mary Pickford

film producer, film actor, film director, screenwriter, writer, stage actor, actor, producer, businessperson, director, film screenwriter

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1892  – 1979

Gladys Louise Smith, known professionally as Mary Pickford, was a Canadian American film actress and producer. A pioneer in the American film industry with a Hollywood career that spanned five decades, Pickford was one of the most popular actresses of the silent film era. Beginning her film career in 1909, Pickford became Hollywood's first millionaire by 1916, and, at the height of her career, had complete creative control of her films and was one of the most recognizable women in the world. Due to her popularity, unprecedented international fame, and success as an actress and businesswoman, she was known as the "Queen of the Movies". She was a significant figure in the development of film acting and is credited with having defined the ingénue type in cinema, a persona that also earned her the nickname "America's Sweetheart".

All Quotes by Mary Pickford

“Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.”
— 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“[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
“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
“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
“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
“The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.”
— Mary Pickford