Quotes By Gloria Swanson

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.

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.

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