Gloria Swanson Quotes

"I was married when I was 17. I knew nothing. I was full of romance."
- Gloria Swanson
(Related: Romance, Nothing)

"I became a fanatic about healthy food in 1944."
- Gloria Swanson
(Related: Food)

"After 16 years in pictures I could not be intimidated easily, because I knew where all the skeletons were buried."
- Gloria Swanson
(Related: Years)

"All creative people should be required to leave California for three months every year."
- Gloria Swanson
(Related: People, Months)

"All they had to do was put my name on a marquee and watch the money roll in."
- Gloria Swanson
(Related: Money, Name)

"As Daddy said, life is 95 percent anticipation."
- Gloria Swanson
(Related: Life, Anticipation)

"Because I take care of my body, it doesn't look like the body of a woman of my years."
- Gloria Swanson
(Related: Body, Care, Woman, Years)

"Fame was thrilling only until it became grueling. Money was fun only until you ran out of things to buy."
- Gloria Swanson
(Related: Money, Fame, Fun)

"From the first moment on the set I was consumed with curiousity about the technical side of shooting a sound picture."
- Gloria Swanson
(Related: First, Sound)

"I always anticipated difficulties in order to avoid scenes."
- Gloria Swanson
(Related: Difficulties, Order)

"I am a very pragmatic person."
- Gloria Swanson

"By the time I was 15, my mother had turned me into a real clotheshorse."
- Gloria Swanson
(Related: Time, Mother)

"I am big. It's the pictures that got small."
- Gloria Swanson

"I was 25 and the most popular celebrity in the world, with the possible exception of my friend Mary Pickford."
- Gloria Swanson
(Related: Friend, Celebrity, Popular, World)

"I consider anybody who weighs over 200 pounds fat, and time was when I could not refrain from telling such people so."
- Gloria Swanson
(Related: Time, People)

"I didn't want to spend the rest of my life playing Norma Desmond over and over again."
- Gloria Swanson
(Related: Life, Rest, Want)

"I doubted that there were Communists hiding behind every corporation desk and director's chair."
- Gloria Swanson

"I entered the cosmetics industry because I wanted more women to use cosmetics made with safe, healthful ingredients."
- Gloria Swanson
(Related: Women, Cosmetics)

"I feel sure that unborn babies pick their parents."
- Gloria Swanson
(Related: Babies, Parents)

"I had starred in more than 30 successful films, six in a row directed by Cecil B. De Mille."
- Gloria Swanson
(Related: Successful)

"There was no place at all for me in my father's military world."
- Gloria Swanson
(Related: Father, Military, World)

"The English press treated the world premiere of my first talking picture as a major event."
- Gloria Swanson
(Related: English, First, Press, Talking, World)

"The first feminine feature that goes, with advancing age, is the neck."
- Gloria Swanson
(Related: Age, First)

"The fuss that actors began making about the difficulty of shifting to sound struck me as perfectly foolish."
- Gloria Swanson
(Related: Actors, Difficulty, Sound)

"The major gossip columnists were more concerned with protecting the industry than with gunning down sinners."
- Gloria Swanson
(Related: Gossip)

"The only time I ever went hunting I remembered it as a grisly experience."
- Gloria Swanson
(Related: Experience, Time, Hunting)

"Your body is the direct result of what you eat as well as what you don't eat."
- Gloria Swanson
(Related: Body, Result)

"Writing the story of your own life is a bit like drilling your own teeth."
- Gloria Swanson
(Related: Life, Drilling, Writing)

"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
(Related: Talent, Example, Taste)

"We lived on the Key West Army Base. Key West for me was a tropical island paradise."
- Gloria Swanson
(Related: Army, Paradise, Key)

"The Sennett system of making pictures was actually fun. You never knew what the person next to you was going to do."
- Gloria Swanson
(Related: 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
(Related: Life, Day, Divorce)

"When I die, my epitaph should read: She Paid the Bills. That's the story of my private life."
- Gloria Swanson
(Related: 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
(Related: Love, Debt, Devotion, Public, Today, Will, Yesterday)

"Tennessee Williams was a gifted talker with a beautiful accent and we had lots of things in common."
- Gloria Swanson

"My mother and I could always look out the same window without ever seeing the same thing."
- Gloria Swanson
(Related: Mother)

"Life and death. They are somehow sweetly and beautifully mixed, but I don't know how."
- Gloria Swanson
(Related: 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
(Related: Life, Months)

"If you're 40 years old and you've never had a failure, you've been deprived."
- Gloria Swanson
(Related: Failure, Old, Years)

"I was the first celebrity in pictures to be marrying a titled European."
- Gloria Swanson
(Related: Celebrity, First)

"The Paramount executives were so pleased with Sunset Boulevard that they asked me to do a publicity tour."
- Gloria Swanson
(Related: Publicity, Sunset)

"My sculpture is very personal; for years my subjects were family and close, close friends."
- Gloria Swanson
(Related: Family, Friends, Sculpture, Years)

"Nobody gets anything for nothing."
- Gloria Swanson
(Related: Nothing)

"One of the networks sent me a TV set to watch. I didn't care for the medium. It depressed me."
- Gloria Swanson
(Related: 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
(Related: Money, Artist, Nothing, Wood)

"Sunset Boulevard opened in August 1950, and it was pronounced the best movie ever made about Hollywood."
- Gloria Swanson
(Related: Hollywood, Sunset)

"I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book."
- Gloria Swanson
(Related: Thought, Divorce)