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Tennessee Williams was a gifted talker with a beautiful accent and we had lots of things in common. (Gloria Swanson)
The day I initiated divorce proceedings against Michael Farmer, I was ready to retire to a desert cave and rethink my life. View quote
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The first feminine feature that goes, with advancing age, is the neck. View quote
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I was the first celebrity in pictures to be marrying a titled European. View quote
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From the first moment on the set I was consumed with curiousity about the technical side of shooting a sound picture. View quote
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I was 25 and the most popular celebrity in the world, with the possible exception of my friend Mary Pickford. View quote
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Sunset Boulevard opened in August 1950, and it was pronounced the best movie ever made about Hollywood. View quote
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I had starred in more than 30 successful films, six in a row directed by Cecil B. De Mille. View quote
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Sam Wood, the director, made most of his money as a real estate agent; there was nothing of the temperamental artist about him. View quote
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My sculpture is very personal; for years my subjects were family and close, close friends. View quote
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The Sennett system of making pictures was actually fun. You never knew what the person next to you was going to do. (Gloria Swanson)
By the time I was 15, my mother had turned me into a real clotheshorse. View quote
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The English press treated the world premiere of my first talking picture as a major event. View quote
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Because I take care of my body, it doesn't look like the body of a woman of my years. View quote
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I didn't want to spend the rest of my life playing Norma Desmond over and over again. View quote
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I doubted that there were Communists hiding behind every corporation desk and director's chair. View quote
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One of the networks sent me a TV set to watch. I didn't care for the medium. It depressed me. View quote
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At 26 I felt myself a victim rather than a victor in the realm of pictures. View quote
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There was no place at all for me in my father's military world. View quote
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If you're 40 years old and you've never had a failure, you've been deprived. View quote
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I'll be eighty this month. Age, if nothing else, entitles me to set the record straight before I dissolve. I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book. (Gloria Swanson)
Nobody gets anything for nothing. View quote
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I think all this talk about age is foolish. Every time I'm one year older, everyone else is too. View quote
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I am big. It's the pictures that got small. View quote
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We lived on the Key West Army Base. Key West for me was a tropical island paradise. View quote
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