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…

— 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…

— Gloria Swanson

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

— 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

The Paramount executives were so pleased with Sunset Boulevard that they asked me to do a publicity tour.

— Gloria Swanson

I feel sure that unborn babies pick their parents.

— Gloria Swanson

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

— Gloria Swanson

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

— Gloria Swanson

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

— Gloria Swanson

Sunset Boulevard opened in August 1950, and it was pronounced the best movie ever made about Hollywood.

— Gloria Swanson

I doubted that there were Communists hiding behind every corporation desk and director's chair.

— Gloria Swanson

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

— Gloria Swanson

Sam Wood, the director, made most of his money as a real estate agent; there was nothing of the temperamental artist about…

— Gloria Swanson

Never say never, for if you live long enough, chances are you will not be able to abide by the simplest of…

— Gloria Swanson

One of the networks sent me a TV set to watch. I didn't care for the medium. It depressed me.

— 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

My greatest debt will always be to the movie-going public of yesterday and today, without whose love and devotion I would have…

— Gloria Swanson