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Motion pictures are the most important contribution to literature and art since the invention of fiction.

— Cecil B. DeMille Cecil De Mille Gives Views on Pictures and Art (1917)

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This will probably be my last film—it will certainly be my biggest.

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Actors are born, and every human being is born an actor.

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Legend rides high with history, but truth follows a lonely trail. I've pursued verity from the museum at Cairo to the smoking tepees of the Cheyennes at Lame Deer, Montana.

Who can tell what the years of the future will bring to the art of the motion picture in view of the amazing progress of the past few years.

Cecil De Mille Gives Views on Pictures and Art (1917)

Sensible married women usually stop acting after the honeymoon—but not their husbands. Young men go on acting parts until they reach maturity, and from there to the grave they're preoccupied with the problem of acting normal. Most men, I'm sorry to say, are "hams" at heart.

Hollywood News: De Mille on Acting (1941)

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