Gloria Swanson Quotes

Never say never Never is a long, undependable time, and life is too full of rich possibilities to have restrictions placed upon it.

I think all this talk about age is foolish. Every time I'm one year older, everyone else is too.

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

Nobody gets anything for nothing.

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.

Your body is the direct result of what you eat as well as what you don't eat.

It's amazing to find that so many people, who I thought really knew me, could have thought that 'Sunset Boulevard' was autobiographical. I've got nobody floating in my swimming pool.

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

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

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

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

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

As Daddy said, life is 95 percent anticipation.

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

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

So they were turning, after all - those cameras. Life, which can be strangely merciful, had taken pity on Norma Desmond. The dream she had clung to so desperately had enfolded her. Norma: You see, this is my life. It always will be! (In a whisper) There's nothing else - just us - and the cameras - and those wonderful people out there in the dark. All right, Mr. De Mille, I'm ready for my close-up.

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