Cari Beauchamp Quote

She wanted her work to be wanted, but still was unwilling to push. After all the years of watching self-promoters get ahead, she could not bring herself to participate. She cautioned herself against anticipation, saying, I don’t let my hopes wing too high—I’m scared to and berated herself for being so dammed afraid of a ‘mike’ that it prevented her from accepting offers for television interviews with Mary Margaret McBride and others.

Cari Beauchamp

She wanted her work to be wanted, but still was unwilling to push. After all the years of watching self-promoters get ahead, she could not bring herself to participate. She cautioned herself against anticipation, saying, I don’t let my hopes wing too high—I’m scared to and berated herself for being so dammed afraid of a ‘mike’ that it prevented her from accepting offers for television interviews with Mary Margaret McBride and others.

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About Cari Beauchamp

Carol Ann "Cari" Beauchamp (; September 12, 1949 – December 14, 2023) was an American author, historian, journalist, and documentary filmmaker. She authored the biography Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Power of Women in Hollywood, which was subsequently made into a documentary film. She was the resident scholar of the Mary Pickford Foundation.