Top 56 Gloria Swanson Quotes
#1. Never say never, for if you live long enough, chances are you will not be able to abide by the simplest of such injunctions.
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#3. The Sennett system of making pictures was actually fun. You never knew what the person next to you was going to do.
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#4. The English press treated the world premiere of my first talking picture as a major event.
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#5. If you're 40 years old and you've never had a failure, you've been deprived.
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#6. The day I initiated divorce proceedings against Michael Farmer, I was ready to retire to a desert cave and rethink my life.
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#7. My mother and I could always look out the same window without ever seeing the same thing.
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#8. Tennessee Williams was a gifted talker with a beautiful accent and we had lots of things in common.
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#9. I was married when I was 17. I knew nothing. I was full of romance.
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#10. I didn't want to spend the rest of my life playing Norma Desmond over and over again.
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#11. The major gossip columnists were more concerned with protecting the industry than with gunning down sinners.
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#12. I was the first celebrity in pictures to be marrying a titled European.
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#13. The only time I ever went hunting I remembered it as a grisly experience.
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#14. When I die, my epitaph should read: She Paid the Bills. That's the story of my private life.
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#17. Fame was thrilling only until it became grueling. Money was fun only until you ran out of things to buy.
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#18. All they had to do was put my name on a marquee and watch the money roll in.
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#19. 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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#21. I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book.
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#22. My sculpture is very personal; for years my subjects were family and close, close friends.
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#24. I doubted that there were Communists hiding behind every corporation desk and director's chair.
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#25. We lived on the Key West Army Base. Key West for me was a tropical island paradise.
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#26. Because I take care of my body, it doesn't look like the body of a woman of my years.
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#27. After 16 years in pictures I could not be intimidated easily, because I knew where all the skeletons were buried.
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#29. In two months Joseph Kennedy had taken over my entire life, and I trusted him implicitly to make the most of it.
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#30. 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.
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#31. I feel sure that unborn babies pick their parents.
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#32. There was no place at all for me in my father's military world.
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#33. Never say never Never is a long, undependable time, and life is too full of rich possibilities to have restrictions placed upon it.
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#34. At 26 I felt myself a victim rather than a victor in the realm of pictures.
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#35. 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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#36. Writing the story of your own life is a bit like drilling your own teeth.
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#37. I entered the cosmetics industry because I wanted more women to use cosmetics made with safe, healthful ingredients.
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#38. I had starred in more than 30 successful films, six in a row directed by Cecil B. De Mille.
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#39. Hollywood's old trick: repeat a successful formula until it dies.
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#40. Life and death. They are somehow sweetly and beautifully mixed, but I don't know how.
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#41. I was 25 and the most popular celebrity in the world, with the possible exception of my friend Mary Pickford.
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#42. 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.
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#43. I think all this talk about age is foolish. Every time I'm one year older, everyone else is too.
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#44. The Paramount executives were so pleased with Sunset Boulevard that they asked me to do a publicity tour.
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#45. By the time I was 15, my mother had turned me into a real clotheshorse.
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#46. Your body is the direct result of what you eat as well as what you don't eat.
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#47. Sam Wood, the director, made most of his money as a real estate agent; there was nothing of the temperamental artist about him.
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#48. All creative people should be required to leave California for three months every year.
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#49. 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.
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#50. I always anticipated difficulties in order to avoid scenes.
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#51. 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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#52. 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.
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#53. The first feminine feature that goes, with advancing age, is the neck.
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#54. 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.
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#55. The fuss that actors began making about the difficulty of shifting to sound struck me as perfectly foolish.
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#56. Sunset Boulevard opened in August 1950, and it was pronounced the best movie ever made about Hollywood.
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