Hollywood Quotes by Gloria Swanson

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

— 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…

— 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

Nobody gets anything for nothing.

— Gloria Swanson

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…

— Gloria Swanson

So they were turning, after all - those cameras. Life, which can be strangely merciful, had taken pity on Norma Desmond. The dream she…

— Gloria Swanson

I became a fanatic about healthy food in 1944.

— Gloria Swanson

The English press treated the world premiere of my first talking picture as a major event.

— Gloria Swanson

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

— Gloria Swanson

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

— Gloria Swanson

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

— Gloria Swanson

I didn't want to spend the rest of my life playing Norma Desmond over and over again.

— Gloria Swanson