Gloria Swanson Quotes

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

Hollywood's old trick: repeat a successful formula until it dies.

The Paramount executives were so pleased with Sunset Boulevard that they asked me to do a publicity tour.

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

So they were turning, after all - those cameras. Life, which can be strangely merciful, had taken pity on Norma Desmond. The dream she had clung to so desperately had enfolded her. Norma: You see, this is my life. It always will be! (In a whisper) There's nothing else - just us - and the cameras - and those wonderful people out there in the dark. All right, Mr. De Mille, I'm ready for my close-up.

The English press treated the world premiere of my first talking picture as a major event.

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