I was 25 and the most popular celebrity in the world, with the possible exception of my friend Mary Pickford. – Gloria Swanson
I’ve given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can’t divorce a book. – Gloria Swanson
I doubted that there were Communists hiding behind every corporation desk and director’s chair. – Gloria Swanson
I had starred in more than 30 successful films, six in a row directed by Cecil B. De Mille. – Gloria Swanson
Because I take care of my body, it doesn’t look like the body of a woman of my years. – Gloria Swanson
Life and death. They are somehow sweetly and beautifully mixed, but I don’t know how. – Gloria Swanson
I didn’t want to spend the rest of my life playing Norma Desmond over and over again. – Gloria Swanson
The English press treated the world premiere of my first talking picture as a major event. – Gloria Swanson
One of the networks sent me a TV set to watch. I didn’t care for the medium. It depressed me. – Gloria Swanson
Fame was thrilling only until it became grueling. Money was fun only until you ran out of things to buy. – Gloria Swanson
After 16 years in pictures I could not be intimidated easily, because I knew where all the skeletons were buried. – Gloria Swanson
I entered the cosmetics industry because I wanted more women to use cosmetics made with safe, healthful ingredients. – Gloria Swanson
From the first moment on the set I was consumed with curiousity about the technical side of shooting a sound picture. – Gloria Swanson
I consider anybody who weighs over 200 pounds fat, and time was when I could not refrain from telling such people so. – Gloria Swanson
Sunset Boulevard opened in August 1950, and it was pronounced the best movie ever made about Hollywood. – Gloria Swanson
All creative people should be required to leave California for three months every year. – Gloria Swanson
