Skip to content

He paused to wait for my decision. Did I want the part or not? I wanted it, I told him, even though he would be paying me about one-third my usual salary. What he didn't know was that I'd have done the part for nothing.

— Cecil B. DeMille

Another quote →

More quotes by Cecil B. DeMille

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

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

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

The Desert Gets A Wash-And-Brush-Up For ... Moses' Poses (1954)

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

Hollywood News: De Mille on Acting (1941)

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)

All Cecil B. DeMille quotes →

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Cecil B. DeMille (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.