Gloria Swanson Quotes

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

As Daddy said, life is 95 percent anticipation.

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

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

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

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

I am a very pragmatic person.

I became a fanatic about healthy food in 1944.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The day I initiated divorce proceedings against Michael Farmer, I was ready to retire to a desert cave and rethink my life.

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

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.

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

When I die, my epitaph should read: She Paid the Bills. That's the story of my private life.