"It saddened me when I watched the likes of Bette Davis and Anita Page crawling across the screen looking like a cross between Baby Jane Hudson and a tired, chipped old porcelain dolly. I am a firm believer in the Mary Pickford school, where one should quit whilst still good-looking and on top."

(Barbara Kent, nome d'arte di Barbara Cloutman, attrice che si ritirò dalle scene nel '34, al culmine del suo successo; Gadsby, 16 dicembre 1907 – Palm Desert, 13 ottobre 2011)