Quotes By Gloria Swanson

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.

Nobody gets anything for nothing.

At 26 I felt myself a victim rather than a victor in the realm of pictures.

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.

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

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

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

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

I was the first celebrity in pictures to be marrying a titled European.

As Daddy said, life is 95 percent anticipation.

The fuss that actors began making about the difficulty of shifting to sound struck me as perfectly foolish.

I was married when I was 17. I knew nothing. I was full of romance.

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

There was no place at all for me in my father's military world.

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

In two months Joseph Kennedy had taken over my entire life, and I trusted him implicitly to make the most of it.