Gloria Swanson Quotes

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Gloria Swanson

Profession : Actress

Birth : March 17, 1899

I always anticipated difficulties in order to avoid scenes.

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

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I had starred in more than 30 successful films, six in a row directed by Cecil B. De Mille.

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I was 25 and the most popular celebrity in the world, with the possible exception of my friend Mary Pickford.

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

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

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

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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.

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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.

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

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Nobody gets anything for nothing.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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