Interview with Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford, The Wichita Beacon, Kansas, September 18, 1921
Walking three blocks sometimes tires me out. If it is in a crowd I never for a moment relax my muscles. Let a small boy feel my arm and find it flabby and he wound turn from me in disgust. The small boy conceives me as a strong man, an athlete, and it is my obligation to him not to disillusion him.
