Gloria Swanson Quotes

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Gloria Swanson

Profession : Actress

Birth : March 17, 1899

I became a fanatic about healthy food in 1944.

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

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

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As Daddy said, life is 95 percent anticipation.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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I am a very pragmatic person.

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At 26 I felt myself a victim rather than a victor in the realm of pictures.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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