Quotes by Pearl White

All the home I know is a hotel. Why, I don't even have a dog... I don't know the first thing about cooking or taking care of a house.
– Pearl White
But you know, work that interests us and that we thoroughly enjoy, is never drudgery.
– Pearl White
I get letters from every conceivable place. A bagful of stuff a week. I don't know why they keep up. You'd think all the people that intended to write would have written by this time and gotten over it. But the stuff keeps coming.
– Pearl White
I got a sweet little telephone call from my director to the general effect that we can't fall behind in our schedule... I had to go-and leave behind me all the pleasures of a snow-white bed, and candy and flowers, and the other lovely things that make illness a positive privilege.
– Pearl White
I struck on the top of my head, displacing several vertebrae. The pain was terrible. For two years I simply lived with osteopaths, and to this day I have some pretty bad times with my back.
– Pearl White
I want to emote. Who doesn't?
– Pearl White
I've done a million stunts. I've been hurt over and over again. But it never happened when what I was doing looked really dangerous.
– Pearl White
It is born to every Western girl to like outdoor life and to do all kinds of wild, daring things.
– Pearl White
Oh, if people only knew how this business has grown.
– Pearl White
The last three generations of our family, there hasn't been one natural death. There were eight of us children, born in the Ozark mountains. Today there only remain my mother, my sister and myself. The rest all died in various accidents. So you see my fate will get me sooner or later.
– Pearl White
The thing you've got to watch for is going broke when you're old. Look at all the people that go down and out at the finish. The man who built my country place is blind now and penniless. That's terrible!
– Pearl White
There is no acting in a serial. You simply race through the reels.
– Pearl White
Why should I have my picture taken when I can get paid for it?
– Pearl White