Quotes By Gloria Swanson

I feel sure that unborn babies pick their parents.

From the first moment on the set I was consumed with curiousity about the technical side of shooting a sound picture.

I didn't want to spend the rest of my life playing Norma Desmond over and over again.

Your body is the direct result of what you eat as well as what you don't eat.

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

Fame was thrilling only until it became grueling. Money was fun only until you ran out of things to buy.

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

The English press treated the world premiere of my first talking picture as a major event.

Sunset Boulevard opened in August 1950, and it was pronounced the best movie ever made about Hollywood.

The only time I ever went hunting I remembered it as a grisly experience.

Writing the story of your own life is a bit like drilling your own teeth.

The major gossip columnists were more concerned with protecting the industry than with gunning down sinners.

I am a very pragmatic person.

All they had to do was put my name on a marquee and watch the money roll in.

I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book.

When I die, my epitaph should read: She Paid the Bills. That's the story of my private life.

The first feminine feature that goes, with advancing age, is the neck.

The day I initiated divorce proceedings against Michael Farmer, I was ready to retire to a desert cave and rethink my life.

My mother and I could always look out the same window without ever seeing the same thing.

At 26 I felt myself a victim rather than a victor in the realm of pictures.

Nobody gets anything for nothing.

By the time I was 15, my mother had turned me into a real clotheshorse.

The Sennett system of making pictures was actually fun. You never knew what the person next to you was going to do.

My sculpture is very personal; for years my subjects were family and close, close friends.

After 16 years in pictures I could not be intimidated easily, because I knew where all the skeletons were buried.

All creative people should be required to leave California for three months every year.

I consider anybody who weighs over 200 pounds fat, and time was when I could not refrain from telling such people so.

I was the first celebrity in pictures to be marrying a titled European.

The fuss that actors began making about the difficulty of shifting to sound struck me as perfectly foolish.

As Daddy said, life is 95 percent anticipation.