Best 17 quotes of Cecil B. Demille on MyQuotes

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

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.

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

Creation is a drug I can't do without.

Creativity is a drug I cannot live without.

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

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

I make my pictures for people, not for critics.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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. They are not laws — they are The Law.

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