Quotes from Gloria Swanson

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

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

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

The only time I ever went hunting I remembered it as a grisly experience.

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

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

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

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

There was no place at all for me in my father's military world.

If I look like this, I need the trip.

I feel sure that unborn babies pick their parents.

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

I became a fanatic about healthy food in 1944.

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

As Daddy said, life is 95 percent anticipation.

The only time I ever went hunting I remembered it as a grisly experience.

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

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

All creative people should be required to leave California for three months every year.

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

Never say never, for if you live long enough, chances are you will not be able to abide by its restrictions. Never is a long, undependable time, and life is too full of rich possibilities to have restrictions placed upon it.

Never say never, for if you live long enough, chances are you will not be able to abide by the simplest of such injunctions.

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

All creative people should be required to leave California for three months every year.