headexplodie:

“If nobody knows you, you can do anything, and if everybody knows you, you can’t do anything- except what everyone approves, which is very little of anything. It has happened often enough among the  human stars of the screen and now it gets even the little fellow in black and white who is no thicker than a pencil mark and exists solely in a state of mind.”

- Terry Ramsaye in the Motion Picture Herald, 1931.