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.

It would have been more logical if silent pictures had grown out of the talkies 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.

When archaeologists discover the missing arms of Venus de Milo, they will find she was wearing boxing gloves.

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If I can add, say, 10 great new violin concertos to the repertoire before I'm done, that will be truly exciting.