Mary Pickford Quotes
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.
Quotes to Explore
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I am not a designer that buys vintage to be inspired.
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I'm not a video brat. I don't derive all my inspiration through movies. I get it from a lot of other places, too.
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Do you follow American politics? They hate Obama. Hate him. He's a black man. That's what it is: it's racist. This guy is no bleeding-heart liberal. He's a centrist.
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It was in 1969, and I thought, wow, you know, I really didn't want to do a TV series. You know, I had my own act, and I was performing in Vegas and doing all of these exciting things.
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Please know that being 80 is not a scary thing. When you're 80, your life is much freer.
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I think I have been very lucky as far as my acting career goes.
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I just want to continue the success and be an athlete that is shown in a good light in New York City.
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Whether it was Little League or playing with your brothers or sisters, that was always a problem. If I would lose - because I very rarely lost - then everything would go crazy.
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I'm fascinated by the way Diane Arbus saw things. She came from this fashion background and then twisted it.
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The girl-next-door image is a sort of joke; for years, I couldn't get any roles other than as somebody dark.
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In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and clothes and even handbags, the discussion of fur is childish.
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The Irish Government can no longer stand by and see innocent people injured and perhaps worse.
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People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?'
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There's no way you can win when you're the president; you've got to be the scapegoat for America's issues.
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Man has an innate capacity for violence, but can only justify it in the name of justice.
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I think Hollywood wants to be safe. The things you do first become your calling card, and I think people just sort of go, 'Well, we know he can do that.' They kind of put you in that hole.
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I have my life on a track that I want it on, and I don't want to get off.
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I'm not a natural storyteller at all. If anything, I'm a natural interviewer, a natural listener, but I'm not a natural storyteller.
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I have some sort of affinity for compulsive behavior. The most interesting stories come up from the people on the outside. They don't waste energy marching to the same drummer most of us do. It gives us an opportunity to look at things in a different way, which is the purest thing cinema can do.
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A lot of men have lost money chasing women. But no man has ever lost women chasing money.
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Gratification and happiness are becoming important measures of our quality of life.
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We only think when we are confronted with problems.
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I'm a messenger. I'm one piece of a giant jigsaw puzzle.
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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.
