A biography for Gloria Swansonhasn’t been written yet.
“My mother and I could always look out the same window without ever seeing the same thing.”
“I entered the cosmetics industry because I wanted more women to use cosmetics made with safe, healthful ingredients.”
“If you're 40 years old and you've never had a failure, you've been deprived.”
“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.”
“Life and death. They are somehow sweetly and beautifully mixed, but I don't know how.”
“I doubted that there were Communists hiding behind every corporation desk and director's chair.”
“The fuss that actors began making about the difficulty of shifting to sound struck me as perfectly foolish.”
“The Sennett system of making pictures was actually fun. You never knew what the person next to you was going to do.”
“I was 25 and the most popular celebrity in the world, with the possible exception of my friend Mary Pickford.”
“Tennessee Williams was a gifted talker with a beautiful accent and we had lots of things in common.”
“I feel sure that unborn babies pick their parents.”
“Your body is the direct result of what you eat as well as what you don't eat.”
“I am big. It's the pictures that got small.”
“There was no place at all for me in my father's military world.”
“My sculpture is very personal; for years my subjects were family and close, close friends.”
“Sam Wood, the director, made most of his money as a real estate agent; there was nothing of the temperamental artist about him.”
“All creative people should be required to leave California for three months every year.”
“The Paramount executives were so pleased with Sunset Boulevard that they asked me to do a publicity tour.”
“I became a fanatic about healthy food in 1944.”
“Sunset Boulevard opened in August 1950, and it was pronounced the best movie ever made about Hollywood.”