I was married when I was 17. I knew nothing. I was full of romance.
Gloria Swanson

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

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

If you're 40 years old and you've never had a failure, you've been deprived.
Gloria Swanson

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

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

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

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.
Gloria Swanson

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

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

Nobody gets anything for nothing.
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

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

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

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

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

The English press treated the world premiere of my first talking picture as a major event.
Gloria Swanson

The first feminine feature that goes, with advancing age, is the neck.
Gloria Swanson

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

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