Douglas Fairbanks Quotes

A collection of quotes by Douglas Fairbanks.

Douglas Fairbanks (1883-1939) was an American actor, producer, and screenwriter. He rose to prominence during the silent film era and became known for his energetic and athletic on-screen performances, often portraying adventurous and swashbuckling characters. Fairbanks founded United Artists along with Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin, and D.W. Griffith, giving artists more control over their work. He starred in films like "The Mark of Zorro" (1920) and "The Thief of Bagdad" (1924), cementing his status as a leading figure in Hollywood. Fairbanks' contributions to the film industry earned him a lasting legacy as one of its pioneering talents.

I've never felt better.

Douglas Fairbanks

Health

... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy -- that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

Douglas Fairbanks

Friends