Gloria Swanson Quotes
American - Actress March 17, 1899 - April 4, 1983



As Daddy said, life is 95 percent anticipation.
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At 26 I felt myself a victim rather than a victor in the realm of pictures.
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By the time I was 15, my mother had turned me into a real clotheshorse.
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Fame was thrilling only until it became grueling. Money was fun only until you ran out of things to buy.
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Nobody gets anything for nothing.
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One of the networks sent me a TV set to watch. I didn't care for the medium. It depressed me.
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The English press treated the world premiere of my first talking picture as a major event.
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Life and death. They are somehow sweetly and beautifully mixed, but I don't know how.
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Sunset Boulevard opened in August 1950, and it was pronounced the best movie ever made about Hollywood.
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I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book.
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All creative people should be required to leave California for three months every year.
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After 16 years in pictures I could not be intimidated easily, because I knew where all the skeletons were buried.
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All they had to do was put my name on a marquee and watch the money roll in.
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Because I take care of my body, it doesn't look like the body of a woman of my years.
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From the first moment on the set I was consumed with curiousity about the technical side of shooting a sound picture.
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I always anticipated difficulties in order to avoid scenes.
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I am a very pragmatic person.
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I became a fanatic about healthy food in 1944.
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I consider anybody who weighs over 200 pounds fat, and time was when I could not refrain from telling such people so.
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I didn't want to spend the rest of my life playing Norma Desmond over and over again.
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I doubted that there were Communists hiding behind every corporation desk and director's chair.
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I entered the cosmetics industry because I wanted more women to use cosmetics made with safe, healthful ingredients.
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I feel sure that unborn babies pick their parents.
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I had starred in more than 30 successful films, six in a row directed by Cecil B. De Mille.
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I was 25 and the most popular celebrity in the world, with the possible exception of my friend Mary Pickford.
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I was married when I was 17. I knew nothing. I was full of romance.
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