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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."
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Gladys Louise Smith, baptised as Gladys Marie Smith, known professionally as Mary Pickford, was a Canadian American film actress and producer. A pioneer in the American film industry with a Hollywood career spanning five decades, Pickford was one of the most popular actresses of the silent film era. Beginning her film career in 1909, Pickford became Hollywood's first millionaire by 1916, and, at t
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"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."
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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."
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"[Talking pictures are] like putting lip rouge on the Venus de Milo."
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"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."
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"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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