Quotes By Gloria Swanson

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.

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 feel sure that unborn babies pick their parents.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

I am a very pragmatic person.

I became a fanatic about healthy food in 1944.

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.

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.

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

Nobody gets anything for nothing.

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

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

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.

One of the networks sent me a TV set to watch. I didn't care for the medium. It depressed me.

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

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