Gloria Swanson famous quotes

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

#Reality #Long #Life Is

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

#Fun #Fame #Ran

I became a fanatic about healthy food in 1944.
-- Gloria Swanson

#Health #Baby Boy #Healthy

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

#Memorable #Years #California

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

#Successful #Six #Film

Nobody gets anything for nothing.
-- Gloria Swanson

As Daddy said, life is 95 percent anticipation.
-- Gloria Swanson

#Life #Father #Daddy

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

#Life And Death

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

#Writing #Teeth #Stories

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

#Book #Divorce #Given

I was married when I was 17. I knew nothing. I was full of romance.
-- Gloria Swanson

#Romance #Married

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.
-- Gloria Swanson

#Dream #Taken #Dark

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

#Complaining #Stories #Bills

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.
-- Gloria Swanson

#Yesterday #Stories #Debt

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

#Hunting #Remembered

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

#Song #World #Mary

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

#Divorce #Desert #Caves

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

#Mother #Looks #Window

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.
-- Gloria Swanson

#Past #Actors #Fool

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

#Years

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

#Mother #Real

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.
-- Gloria Swanson

#Sunset #Swimming #People

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

#Beautiful #Tennessee #Common

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.
-- Gloria Swanson

#Art #Brain #Example

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

#Taken #Two #Months

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

#Real #Artist #Woods

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

#Watches #Care #Tvs

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

#Sunset #August #Hollywood

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

#Talking #Events #World

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

#Age #Firsts #Necks

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

#Sunset #Publicity #Euthanasia

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

#Office #Directors #Corporations

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

#Long #Able #Chance

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

#Skeletons #Years #Buried

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

#Thinking #Years #Age

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.
-- Gloria Swanson

#Stars #Long #Gone

Key West for me was a tropical island paradise.
-- Gloria Swanson

#Islands #Keys #Paradise

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

#Father #Military #World

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

#Use #Safe #Cosmetics

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

#Names #Watches #Marquee

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

#Want

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

#Gossip #Columnists #Concerned

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

#Years #Looks #Body

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

#Firsts

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

#Sound #Actors #Shifting

I feel sure that unborn babies pick their parents.
-- Gloria Swanson

#Baby #Parent #Feels

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

#Body #Results #Wells

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

#Sound #Shooting #Firsts

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

#Eugenics #People #Pounds

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

#Friends #Years #Sculpture

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

#Victim #Realms

I always anticipated difficulties in order to avoid scenes.
-- Gloria Swanson

#Order #Scene #Difficulty

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

#Movie #Successful #Hollywood