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Gloria Swanson
American
Actress
About the author
At 26 I felt myself a victim rather than a victor in the realm of pictures.
Gloria Swanson,
American
Actress
I was married when I was 17. I knew nothing. I was full of romance.
Gloria Swanson,
American
Actress
#Nothing
#Romance
I became a fanatic about healthy food in 1944.
Gloria Swanson,
American
Actress
#Food
After 16 years in pictures I could not be intimidated easily, because I knew where all the skeletons were buried.
Gloria Swanson,
American
Actress
#Years
All creative people should be required to leave California for three months every year.
Gloria Swanson,
American
Actress
#People
#Months
All they had to do was put my name on a marquee and watch the money roll in.
Gloria Swanson,
American
Actress
#Money
#Name
As Daddy said, life is 95 percent anticipation.
Gloria Swanson,
American
Actress
#Life
#Anticipation
Because I take care of my body, it doesn't look like the body of a woman of my years.
Gloria Swanson,
American
Actress
#Years
#Woman
#Body
#Care
Fame was thrilling only until it became grueling. Money was fun only until you ran out of things to buy.
Gloria Swanson,
American
Actress
#Fun
#Money
#Fame
From the first moment on the set I was consumed with curiousity about the technical side of shooting a sound picture.
Gloria Swanson,
American
Actress
#First
#Sound
I always anticipated difficulties in order to avoid scenes.
Gloria Swanson,
American
Actress
#Order
#Difficulties
I am a very pragmatic person.
Gloria Swanson,
American
Actress
By the time I was 15, my mother had turned me into a real clotheshorse.
Gloria Swanson,
American
Actress
#Time
#Mother
I am big. It's the pictures that got small.
Gloria Swanson,
American
Actress
I was 25 and the most popular celebrity in the world, with the possible exception of my friend Mary Pickford.
Gloria Swanson,
American
Actress
#Celebrity
#World
#Popular
#Friend
I consider anybody who weighs over 200 pounds fat, and time was when I could not refrain from telling such people so.
Gloria Swanson,
American
Actress
#Time
#People
I didn't want to spend the rest of my life playing Norma Desmond over and over again.
Gloria Swanson,
American
Actress
#Want
#Life
#Rest
I doubted that there were Communists hiding behind every corporation desk and director's chair.
Gloria Swanson,
American
Actress
I entered the cosmetics industry because I wanted more women to use cosmetics made with safe, healthful ingredients.
Gloria Swanson,
American
Actress
#Women
#Cosmetics
I feel sure that unborn babies pick their parents.
Gloria Swanson,
American
Actress
#Parents
#Babies
I had starred in more than 30 successful films, six in a row directed by Cecil B. De Mille.
Gloria Swanson,
American
Actress
#Successful
There was no place at all for me in my father's military world.
Gloria Swanson,
American
Actress
#World
#Military
#Father
The English press treated the world premiere of my first talking picture as a major event.
Gloria Swanson,
American
Actress
#World
#First
#English
#Talking
#Press
The first feminine feature that goes, with advancing age, is the neck.
Gloria Swanson,
American
Actress
#First
#Age
The fuss that actors began making about the difficulty of shifting to sound struck me as perfectly foolish.
Gloria Swanson,
American
Actress
#Difficulty
#Sound
#Actors
The major gossip columnists were more concerned with protecting the industry than with gunning down sinners.
Gloria Swanson,
American
Actress
#Gossip
The only time I ever went hunting I remembered it as a grisly experience.
Gloria Swanson,
American
Actress
#Time
#Experience
#Hunting
Your body is the direct result of what you eat as well as what you don't eat.
Gloria Swanson,
American
Actress
#Result
#Body
Writing the story of your own life is a bit like drilling your own teeth.
Gloria Swanson,
American
Actress
#Life
#Writing
#Drilling
Much as I cared for Joseph Kennedy, he was a classic example of that person in the arts with lots of brains and drive but little taste or talent.
Gloria Swanson,
American
Actress
#Talent
#Example
#Taste
We lived on the Key West Army Base. Key West for me was a tropical island paradise.
Gloria Swanson,
American
Actress
#Key
#Army
#Paradise
The Sennett system of making pictures was actually fun. You never knew what the person next to you was going to do.
Gloria Swanson,
American
Actress
#Fun
The day I initiated divorce proceedings against Michael Farmer, I was ready to retire to a desert cave and rethink my life.
Gloria Swanson,
American
Actress
#Life
#Day
#Divorce
When I die, my epitaph should read: She Paid the Bills. That's the story of my private life.
Gloria Swanson,
American
Actress
#Life
My greatest debt will always be to the movie-going public of yesterday and today, without whose love and devotion I would have had no story to tell.
Gloria Swanson,
American
Actress
#Love
#Public
#Will
#Today
#Yesterday
#Debt
#Devotion
Tennessee Williams was a gifted talker with a beautiful accent and we had lots of things in common.
Gloria Swanson,
American
Actress
My mother and I could always look out the same window without ever seeing the same thing.
Gloria Swanson,
American
Actress
#Mother
Life and death. They are somehow sweetly and beautifully mixed, but I don't know how.
Gloria Swanson,
American
Actress
#Life
#Death
In two months Joseph Kennedy had taken over my entire life, and I trusted him implicitly to make the most of it.
Gloria Swanson,
American
Actress
#Life
#Months
If you're 40 years old and you've never had a failure, you've been deprived.
Gloria Swanson,
American
Actress
#Years
#Failure
#Old
I was the first celebrity in pictures to be marrying a titled European.
Gloria Swanson,
American
Actress
#Celebrity
#First
The Paramount executives were so pleased with Sunset Boulevard that they asked me to do a publicity tour.
Gloria Swanson,
American
Actress
#Publicity
#Sunset
My sculpture is very personal; for years my subjects were family and close, close friends.
Gloria Swanson,
American
Actress
#Years
#Family
#Friends
#Sculpture
Nobody gets anything for nothing.
Gloria Swanson,
American
Actress
#Nothing
One of the networks sent me a TV set to watch. I didn't care for the medium. It depressed me.
Gloria Swanson,
American
Actress
#Care
Sam Wood, the director, made most of his money as a real estate agent; there was nothing of the temperamental artist about him.
Gloria Swanson,
American
Actress
#Nothing
#Money
#Artist
#Wood
Sunset Boulevard opened in August 1950, and it was pronounced the best movie ever made about Hollywood.
Gloria Swanson,
American
Actress
#Hollywood
#Sunset
I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book.
Gloria Swanson,
American
Actress
#Thought
#Divorce