Gloria Swanson Quotes

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

I think all this talk about age is foolish. Every time I'm one year older, everyone else is too.

Fame was thrilling only until it became grueling. Money was fun only until you ran out of things to buy.

In a theater you can fool everyone past the tenth row if you're good, but on the screen you can't really fool anyone for a second.

Nobody gets something for nothing.

I became a fanatic about healthy food in 1944.

By the time I was 15, my mother had turned me into a real clotheshorse.

Tennessee Williams was a gifted talker with a beautiful accent and we had lots of things in common.

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

I had starred in more than 30 successful films, six in a row directed by Cecil B. De Mille.

I always anticipated difficulties in order to avoid scenes.

If you're 40 years old and you've never had a failure, you've been deprived.

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

It's amazing to find that so many people, who I thought really knew me, could have thought that 'Sunset Boulevard' was autobiographical. I've got nobody floating in my swimming pool.

The first feminine feature that goes, with advancing age, is the neck.

The only time I ever went hunting I remembered it as a grisly experience.

Sunset Boulevard opened in August 1950, and it was pronounced the best movie ever made about Hollywood.

As Daddy said, life is 95 percent anticipation.

I am a very pragmatic person.

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

Nobody gets anything for nothing.

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

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

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

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

From the first moment on the set I was consumed with curiousity about the technical side of shooting a sound picture.

I have gone through a long apprenticeship. I have gone through enough of being a nobody. I have decided that when I am a star, I will be every inch and every moment the star! Everybody from the studio gateman to the highest executive will know it.

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

Never say never, for if you live long enough, chances are you will not be able to abide by the simplest of such injunctions.

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

All they had to do was put my name on a marquee and watch the money roll in.

I feel sure that unborn babies pick their parents.

I didn't want to spend the rest of my life playing Norma Desmond over and over again.

Never say never Never is a long, undependable time, and life is too full of rich possibilities to have restrictions placed upon it.

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

My mother and I could always look out the same window without ever seeing the same thing.

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

The Sennett system of making pictures was actually fun. You never knew what the person next to you was going to do.

I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Key West for me was a tropical island paradise.

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

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