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I have gone through a long app...

I have gone through a long apprenticeship. I have gone through enough of being a nobody. I have decided that when I am a star, I will be every inch and every moment the star! Everybody from the studio gateman to the highest executive will know it.

Gloria Swanson 137 quotes

Never say never, for if you li...

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

Gloria Swanson 137 quotes

Hollywood's old trick: repeat ...

Hollywood's old trick: repeat a successful formula until it dies.

Gloria Swanson 137 quotes

In a theater you can fool ever...

In a theater you can fool everyone past the tenth row if you're good, but on the screen you can't really fool anyone for a second.

Gloria Swanson 137 quotes

I was 25 and the most popular ...

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

Gloria Swanson 137 quotes

The only time I ever went hunt...

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

Gloria Swanson 137 quotes

All creative people should be ...

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

Gloria Swanson 137 quotes

My greatest debt will always b...

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.

Gloria Swanson 137 quotes

When I die, my epitaph should ...

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

Gloria Swanson 137 quotes

The first feminine feature tha...

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

Gloria Swanson 137 quotes

In two months Joseph Kennedy h...

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

Gloria Swanson 137 quotes

Fame was thrilling only until ...

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

Gloria Swanson 137 quotes

Much as I cared for Joseph Ken...

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.

Gloria Swanson 137 quotes

One of the networks sent me a ...

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

Gloria Swanson 137 quotes

Tennessee Williams was a gifte...

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

Gloria Swanson 137 quotes

The English press treated the ...

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

Gloria Swanson 137 quotes

All they had to do was put my ...

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

Gloria Swanson 137 quotes

I had starred in more than 30 ...

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

Gloria Swanson 137 quotes

I didn't want to spend the res...

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

Gloria Swanson 137 quotes

The major gossip columnists we...

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

Gloria Swanson 137 quotes

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