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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

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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.

[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.

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