Quotes About Gloria Swanson

#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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#2. Nobody gets anything for nothing.

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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. From dear, dear Gloria Swanson, I learned how to live long, happy and free of health problems. I owe her my life.

Dirk Benedict

#7. 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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#8. My mother and I could always look out the same window without ever seeing the same thing.

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

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#10. I read Gloria Swanson's autobiography just because I wanted to know what it was like in the time.

Berenice Bejo

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

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

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#13. The major gossip columnists were more concerned with protecting the industry than with gunning down sinners.

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

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

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

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#17. I am a very pragmatic person.

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#18. As Daddy said, life is 95 percent anticipation.

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

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

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#21. 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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#22. I became a fanatic about healthy food in 1944.

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

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

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#25. I am big. It's the pictures that got small.

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

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#27. We lived on the Key West Army Base. Key West for me was a tropical island paradise.

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

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

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#30. Nobody gets something for nothing.

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#31. 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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#32. 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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#33. I feel sure that unborn babies pick their parents.

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#34. There was no place at all for me in my father's military world.

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

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

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

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

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#41. Hollywood's old trick: repeat a successful formula until it dies.

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

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

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

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

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

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#48. Your body is the direct result of what you eat as well as what you don't eat.

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#49. 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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#50. I watch an awful lot of old Hollywood movies - I'll devour anything with Bette Davis or Joan Crawford. My absolute favourite is 'Sunset Boulevard' starring Gloria Swanson.

Amanda Donohoe

#51. All creative people should be required to leave California for three months every year.

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#52. 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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#53. I always anticipated difficulties in order to avoid scenes.

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#54. 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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#55. 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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#56. The first feminine feature that goes, with advancing age, is the neck.

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#57. 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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#58. The fuss that actors began making about the difficulty of shifting to sound struck me as perfectly foolish.

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

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