58+ Gloria Swanson Quotes On Beauty, Education And World

Gloria Swanson was an American actress who first rose to fame during the silent era. She was a major star of the 1920s and 1930s, appearing in such films as 'Sunset Boulevard' and 'Queen Kelly'. She was also known for her glamour and beauty, being one of the most famous Hollywood stars of her time. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Gloria Swanson on beauty, life, education.

Top 10 Gloria Swanson Quotes

1. Key West for me was a tropical island paradise.
2. I feel sure that unborn babies pick their parents.
3. Never say never Never is a long, undependable time, and life is too full of rich possibilities to have restrictions placed upon it.
4. I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book.
5. Sam Wood, the director, made most of his money as a real estate agent; there was nothing of the temperamental artist about him.
6. The major gossip columnists were more concerned with protecting the industry than with gunning down sinners.
7. When I die, my epitaph should read: She Paid the Bills. That's the story of my private life.
8. 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.
9. I became a fanatic about healthy food in 1944.
10. I am big. It's the pictures that got small.

Gloria Swanson Short Quotes

• Tennessee Williams was a gifted talker with a beautiful accent and we had lots of things in common.
• The first feminine feature that goes, with advancing age, is the neck.
• All they had to do was put my name on a marquee and watch the money roll in.
• The only time I ever went hunting I remembered it as a grisly experience.
• We lived on the Key West Army Base. Key West for me was a tropical island paradise.
• I am a very pragmatic person.
• Nobody gets anything for nothing.
• My mother and I could always look out the same window without ever seeing the same thing.
• Your body is the direct result of what you eat as well as what you don't eat.
• I was married when I was 17. I knew nothing. I was full of romance.

Gloria Swanson Quotes About Life

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

The day I initiated divorce proceedings against Michael Farmer, I was ready to retire to a desert cave and rethink my life. — 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

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

Writing the story of your own life is a bit like drilling your own teeth. — Gloria Swanson

Gloria Swanson Quotes About World

I was 25 and the most popular celebrity in the world, with the possible exception of my friend Mary Pickford. — Gloria Swanson

There was no place at all for me in my father's military world. — Gloria Swanson

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

Gloria Swanson Quotes About Pictures

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

From the first moment on the set I was consumed with curiousity about the technical side of shooting a sound picture. — Gloria Swanson

The Sennett system of making pictures was actually fun. You never knew what the person next to you was going to do. — Gloria Swanson

At 26 I felt myself a victim rather than a victor in the realm of pictures. — Gloria Swanson

I was the first celebrity in pictures to be marrying a titled European. — Gloria Swanson

Gloria Swanson Quotes About Years

My sculpture is very personal; for years my subjects were family and close, close friends. — Gloria Swanson

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

Because I take care of my body, it doesn't look like the body of a woman of my years. — Gloria Swanson

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

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

Gloria Swanson Famous Quotes And Sayings

The fuss that actors began making about the difficulty of shifting to sound struck me as perfectly foolish. — 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

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

I have gone through a long apprenticeship. I have gone through enough of being a nobody. I have decided that when I am a star, I will be every inch and every moment the star! Everybody from the studio gateman to the highest executive will know it. — Gloria Swanson

Never say never, for if you live long enough, chances are you will not be able to abide by the simplest of such injunctions. — Gloria Swanson

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

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

By the time I was 15, my mother had turned me into a real clotheshorse. — Gloria Swanson

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

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

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

I entered the cosmetics industry because I wanted more women to use cosmetics made with safe, healthful ingredients. — Gloria Swanson

I always anticipated difficulties in order to avoid scenes. — Gloria Swanson

Nobody gets something for nothing. — 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

Life Lessons by Gloria Swanson

1. Life is full of unexpected twists and turns, and it is important to remain flexible and open to change.
2. It is important to focus on your goals and work hard to achieve them, no matter how difficult the journey may be.
3. It is important to stay true to yourself and to never give up on your dreams, no matter how impossible they may seem.