Gloria Swanson quotes

As Daddy said, life is 95 percent anticipation. (Gloria Swanson)
Life and death. They are somehow sweetly and beautifully mixed, but I don't know how.
Gloria Swanson
I entered the cosmetics industry because I wanted more women to use cosmetics made with safe, healthful ingredients.
Gloria Swanson
The Paramount executives were so pleased with Sunset Boulevard that they asked me to do a publicity tour.
Gloria Swanson
The only time I ever went hunting I remembered it as a grisly experience.
Gloria Swanson
Fame was thrilling only until it became grueling. Money was fun only until you ran out of things to buy.
Gloria Swanson
Your body is the direct result of what you eat as well as what you don't eat.
Gloria Swanson
All creative people should be required to leave California for three months every year.
Gloria Swanson
My mother and I could always look out the same window without ever seeing the same thing.
Gloria Swanson
I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book.
Gloria Swanson
After 16 years in pictures I could not be intimidated easily, because I knew where all the skeletons were buried. (Gloria Swanson)
When I die, my epitaph should read: She Paid the Bills. That's the story of my private life.
Gloria Swanson
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
The fuss that actors began making about the difficulty of shifting to sound struck me as perfectly foolish.
Gloria Swanson
Writing the story of your own life is a bit like drilling your own teeth.
Gloria Swanson
All they had to do was put my name on a marquee and watch the money roll in.
Gloria Swanson
I feel sure that unborn babies pick their parents.
Gloria Swanson
I am a very pragmatic person.
Gloria Swanson
I consider anybody who weighs over 200 pounds fat, and time was when I could not refrain from telling such people so.
Gloria Swanson
I always anticipated difficulties in order to avoid scenes.
Gloria Swanson
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)
The major gossip columnists were more concerned with protecting the industry than with gunning down sinners.
Gloria Swanson
I was married when I was 17. I knew nothing. I was full of romance.
Gloria Swanson
I became a fanatic about healthy food in 1944.
Gloria Swanson
In two months Joseph Kennedy had taken over my entire life, and I trusted him implicitly to make the most of it.
Gloria Swanson