Quotes By Gloria Swanson
Fame was thrilling only until it became grueling. Money was fun only until you ran out of things to buy.
Gloria Swanson
The fuss that actors began making about the difficulty of shifting to sound struck me as perfectly foolish.
Gloria Swanson
In two months Joseph Kennedy had taken over my entire life, and I trusted him implicitly to make the most of it.
Gloria Swanson
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
My mother and I could always look out the same window without ever seeing the same thing.
Gloria Swanson
The Paramount executives were so pleased with Sunset Boulevard that they asked me to do a publicity tour.
Gloria Swanson
I had starred in more than 30 successful films, six in a row directed by Cecil B. De Mille.
Gloria Swanson
My sculpture is very personal; for years my subjects were family and close, close friends.
Gloria Swanson
All creative people should be required to leave California for three months every year.
Gloria Swanson
I was 25 and the most popular celebrity in the world, with the possible exception of my friend Mary Pickford.
Gloria Swanson
I consider anybody who weighs over 200 pounds fat, and time was when I could not refrain from telling such people so.
Gloria Swanson
From the first moment on the set I was consumed with curiousity about the technical side of shooting a sound picture.
Gloria Swanson
I didn't want to spend the rest of my life playing Norma Desmond over and over again.
Gloria Swanson
Because I take care of my body, it doesn't look like the body of a woman of my years.
Gloria Swanson
I doubted that there were Communists hiding behind every corporation desk and director's chair.
Gloria Swanson