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1892–1979 Canada
Gladys Marie Smith (April 8, 1892 – May 29, 1979), known professionally as Mary Pickford, was a Canadian-born film star and co-founder of United Artists, known as "America's Sweetheart" and "the girl with the curls."
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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.
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 back to laughter. What do people go to the theater for? An emotional exercise. And no preachment.
[Talking pictures are] like putting lip rouge on the Venus de Milo.
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.
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.
Why Not Try God? (1934)
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