Quotes

[on her work in The Birth of a Nation (1915)] I was a white girl in the morning and a colored girl in the afternoon.

[Retrospectively on her career] I enjoyed it an awful lot, and it was very easy work, very easy. I just worked because I enjoyed it, and I enjoyed the money. Then I had some difficulties that I would like to forget, and now I'm through with it, and it's out of mind. It's hard for me to recall things.

[After being fired from The Great Gabbo (1929) by director James Cruze and being replaced by his wife, Betty Compson] That's one of the dirty tricks played on you in films.