Best 40 quotes of Gloria Swanson on MyQuotes

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.

As Daddy said, life is 95 percent anticipation.

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

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

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

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

I feel sure that unborn babies pick their parents.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Key West for me was a tropical island paradise.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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