Quote by Mary Pickford
Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus

Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo. – Mary Pickford

Other quotes by Mary Pickford

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. – Mary Pickford

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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. – Mary Pickford

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Im a big fan of vampire movies generally and that sort of tradition of characters. – Michael Sheen

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By the way, movies are like sporting events in that youre as good as the movie youre in. You can sit in a room for 20 years and go do a movie and you can just kill in it and you move to the head of the line again. By the same token, you can do five movies a year and if theyre dreck, its nothing. – Albert Brooks

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I loved Alien, and I loved Carrie, and I loved The Exorcist – those were big movies for me. They were just brilliantly done, and unusual, and they all took horror to some new place. – Lawrence Kasdan

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Movies were a struggle for me – they didnt come easy. – Mandy Patinkin

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Theres all these ways to instantly communicate – cars, computers, telephone and transportation – and even with all that, its so hard to find people and have an honest communication with them. – Jason Schwartzman

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