Cecil B. DeMille Quotes

The greatest art in the world is the art of storytelling.

The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly.

After more than sixty years of almost daily reading of the Bible, I never fail to find it always new and marvelously in tune with the changing needs of every day.

Give me any two pages of the Bible and I'll give you a picture.

Now, public libraries are most admirable institutions, but they have one irritating custom. They want their books back.

The Bible has been a bestseller for centuries. Why should I let two thousand years of publicity go to waste?

A dozen press agents working overtime can do terrible things to the human spirit.

I make my pictures for people, not for critics.

The Ten Commandments are the charter and guide of human liberty, for there can be no liberty without the law.

It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselves against the law.

Creation is a drug I can't do without.

Every time I make a picture the critics' estimate of American public taste goes down ten percent.

What I have crossed out I didn't like. What I haven't crossed out I'm dissatisfied with.

Man has made 32 million laws since the Commandments were handed down to Moses on Mount Sinai... but he has never improved on God's law.

There can be no liberty without the law

As a boy, I used to look upon the hieroglyphics as so many wonderful pictures.

The public is always right.

The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.