Gloria Swanson quotes
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“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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“Fame was thrilling only until it became grueling. Money was fun only until you ran out of things to buy.”
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“I became a fanatic about healthy food in 1944.”
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“All creative people should be required to leave California for three months every year.”
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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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“Nobody gets anything for nothing.”
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“As Daddy said, life is 95 percent anticipation.”
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“Life and death. They are somehow sweetly and beautifully mixed, but I don't know how.”
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“Writing the story of your own life is a bit like drilling your own teeth.”
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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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“I was married when I was 17. I knew nothing. I was full of romance.”
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“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.”
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“When I die, my epitaph should read: She Paid the Bills. That's the story of my private life.”
-- Gloria SwansonSource : Quoted in Saturday Evening Post, 22 July 1950
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“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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“The only time I ever went hunting I remembered it as a grisly experience.”
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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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“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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“My mother and I could always look out the same window without ever seeing the same thing.”
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“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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“If you're 40 years old and you've never had a failure, you've been deprived.”
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“By the time I was 15, my mother had turned me into a real clotheshorse.”
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“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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“Tennessee Williams was a gifted talker with a beautiful accent and we had lots of things in common.”
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“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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“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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“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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“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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“Sunset Boulevard opened in August 1950, and it was pronounced the best movie ever made about Hollywood.”
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“The English press treated the world premiere of my first talking picture as a major event.”
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“The first feminine feature that goes, with advancing age, is the neck.”
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“The Paramount executives were so pleased with Sunset Boulevard that they asked me to do a publicity tour.”
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“I doubted that there were Communists hiding behind every corporation desk and director's chair.”
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“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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“After 16 years in pictures I could not be intimidated easily, because I knew where all the skeletons were buried.”
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“I think all this talk about age is foolish. Every time I'm one year older, everyone else is too.”
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“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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“Key West for me was a tropical island paradise.”
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“There was no place at all for me in my father's military world.”
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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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“All they had to do was put my name on a marquee and watch the money roll in.”
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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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“The major gossip columnists were more concerned with protecting the industry than with gunning down sinners.”
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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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“I was the first celebrity in pictures to be marrying a titled European.”
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“The fuss that actors began making about the difficulty of shifting to sound struck me as perfectly foolish.”
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“I feel sure that unborn babies pick their parents.”
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“Your body is the direct result of what you eat as well as what you don't eat.”
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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 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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“My sculpture is very personal; for years my subjects were family and close, close friends.”
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“At 26 I felt myself a victim rather than a victor in the realm of pictures.”
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“I always anticipated difficulties in order to avoid scenes.”
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“Hollywood's old trick: repeat a successful formula until it dies.”
-- Gloria Swanson
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