Gloria Swanson Quotes

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

Romantic, Nothing, Married

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

Pictures, Celebrity, Marrying

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

Book, Thought, Divorce

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

Failure, Old, Deprived

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

Person, Talent, Drive

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

Love, Today, Greatest

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

Mother, Same, Seeing

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

Family, Friends, Personal

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

Care, Depressed, Watch

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

Money, Nothing, Real

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

Beautiful, Common, Lots

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

Life, Divorce, Against

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

Picture, Talking, English

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

Age, Goes, Feminine

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

Making, Foolish, Sound

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

Gossip, Down, Concerned

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

Sunset, Asked, Tour

The Sennett system of making pictures was actually fun. You never knew what the person next to you was going to do.
Gloria Swanson

Fun, Person, Making

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

Army, Key, Lived

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

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

Life, Writing, Story

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

Body, Result, Eat

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Biography

Nationality: American

Born: March 17, 1899

Died: April 4, 1983

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