Top 22 Quotes & Sayings by Cecil B. DeMille

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American producer Cecil B. DeMille.

Last updated on December 18, 2024.

Cecil Blount DeMille was an American film director, producer and actor. Between 1914 and 1958, he made 70 features, both silent and sound films. He is acknowledged as a founding father of the American cinema and the most commercially successful producer-director in film history. His films were distinguished by their epic scale and by his cinematic showmanship. His silent films included social dramas, comedies, Westerns, farces, morality plays, and historical pageants. He was an active Freemason and member of Prince of Orange Lodge #16 in New York City.

American - Producer | August 12, 1881 - January 21, 1959

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

Cecil B. DeMille

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

Cecil B. DeMille

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

Cecil B. DeMille

The public is always right.

Cecil B. DeMille

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

Cecil B. DeMille

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.

Cecil B. DeMille

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

Cecil B. DeMille

Creation is a drug I can't do without.

Cecil B. DeMille

There can be no liberty without the law.

Cecil B. DeMille

I win my awards at the box office.

Cecil B. DeMille

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

Cecil B. DeMille

Our modern world defined God as a ‘religious complex’ and laughed at the Ten Commandments as OLD FASHIONED. Then, through the laughter came the shattering thunder of the World War. And now a blood-drenched, bitter world — no longer laughing — cries for a way out. There is but one way out. It existed before it was engraven upon Tablets of Stone. It will exist when stone has crumbled. The Ten Commandments are not rules to obey as a personal favor to God. They are the fundamental principles without which mankind cannot live together.

Cecil B. DeMille

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.

Cecil B. DeMille

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

Cecil B. DeMille

There can be no liberty without the law

Cecil B. DeMille

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

Cecil B. DeMille

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

Cecil B. DeMille

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

Cecil B. DeMille

Creativity is a drug I cannot live without.

Cecil B. DeMille

Man has made 32 million laws since THE COMMANDMENTS were handed down to Moses on Mount Sinai more than three thousand years ago, but he has never improved on God's law. THE TEN COMMANDMENTS are the principles by which man may live with God and man may live with man. They are the expressions of the mind of God for His creatures. They are the charter and guide of human liberty, for there can be no liberty without the law.

Cecil B. DeMille

I make my pictures for people, not for critics.

Cecil B. DeMille

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

Cecil B. DeMille