- [1926] I've only two highlights in my past, if you can call them that - The Miracle Man (1919) and Driven (1923). But the work of others in those pictures was so much better that it overshadowed mine, and few people remember that I played in them.
- [1926] There's one advantage in never having given an outstanding performance. You have nothing big to live up to. My future is all ahead of me.
- [on being cast in The Volga Boatman (1926)] It was just one of those marvelous things that happen so quickly and surprisingly that they seem like dreams. Here I had been going along from year to year in a rut, with nothing startling occurring, and, blooey! like a snap of your fingers, here I am.
- [on Cecil B. DeMille, who cast her in the role of Princess Vera in The Volga Boatman (1926)] He saw me in something or other and sent for me. There were fifteen girls in the office when I came in - he was looking for an actress for this "Volga Boatman" lead, and intended to put her under contract. Fifteen minutes after I had arrived - and he had only looked at me only once, mind you - I was signed. I went out in a daze, wondering whether he or I had suddenly gone crazy, or whether it was both of us.
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