Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.
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.
If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.
It would have been more logical if silent pictures had grown out of the talkies instead of the other way around.
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.
One of the great penalties those of us who live our lives in full view of the public must pay is the loss of that most cherished birthright of man's, privacy.
Supposing you have tried and failed again and again. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.
The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.
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.
Mary's first Talkie was 1929's Coquette .
Mary was the subject of the first cinematic close-up shot in 1912's Friends.
Mary was the first actress to receive a percentage of a film's earnings.
Mary was in the same stage company as Lillian Gish and Dorothy Gish in the early 1900s.
Mary's height is 5'0?".
Mary is one of the 36 founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).
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