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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 Quote

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

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

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

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 Quote

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

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

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

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

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

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

We lived on the Key West Army Base. Key West for me was a tropical island paradise.
- Gloria Swanson Quote

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

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