Gloria Swanson

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

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

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

“Nobody gets anything for nothing.”

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

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

“I always anticipated difficulties in order to avoid scenes.”

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

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

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

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

“I am a very pragmatic person.”

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

“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.”

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

“As Daddy said, life is 95 percent anticipation.”

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

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

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