Gloria Swanson Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Nobody gets anything for nothing.