Cecil B. DeMille Quotes

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

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.

I make my pictures for people, not for critics.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.