Quotes By Gloria Swanson

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

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.

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

I always anticipated difficulties in order to avoid scenes.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.