Mary Pickford

“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.”

“The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.”

“Today is a new day. You will get out of it just what you put into it.”

“If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you.”

“Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.”

“The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.”

“I was forced to live far beyond my years when just a child, now I have reversed the process and I intend to remain young indefinitely.”

“Making a film is like putting a message in a bottle and throwing it in the ocean.”

“I have come to the conclusion that one of the most important things in life is to be an enthusiast.”

“I'd rather be a bust at something I love than a success at something I hate.”

“I'm not a grand-opera personality. I'm just a little girl from the people.”

“I never liked my own curls. I was always begging my mother to straighten them.”

“I'm through with making believe. I'm through with being a little girl. I want to be a woman.”