Quotes from Gloria Swanson

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

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

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

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

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

Sam Wood, the director, made most of his money as a real estate agent; there was nothing of the temperamental artist about him.

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

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

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

I am a very pragmatic person.

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

As Daddy said, life is 95 percent anticipation.

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

I always anticipated difficulties in order to avoid scenes.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Never say never Never is a long, undependable time, and life is too full of rich possibilities to have restrictions placed upon it.

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

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