Quotes By Gloria Swanson

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.

If you're 40 years old and you've never had a failure, you've been deprived.

The Paramount executives were so pleased with Sunset Boulevard that they asked me to do a publicity tour.

I had starred in more than 30 successful films, six in a row directed by Cecil B. De Mille.

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

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

I always anticipated difficulties in order to avoid scenes.

I was 25 and the most popular celebrity in the world, with the possible exception of my friend Mary Pickford.

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

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.

As Daddy said, life is 95 percent anticipation.

Because I take care of my body, it doesn't look like the body of a woman of my years.

I entered the cosmetics industry because I wanted more women to use cosmetics made with safe, healthful ingredients.

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.

I became a fanatic about healthy food in 1944.

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

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.

I am a very pragmatic person.

We lived on the Key West Army Base. Key West for me was a tropical island paradise.

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.

Life and death. They are somehow sweetly and beautifully mixed, but I don't know how.

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

Sam Wood, the director, made most of his money as a real estate agent; there was nothing of the temperamental artist about him.

Nobody gets anything for nothing.