Author Profile
Gloria Swanson
1899 – 1983 • American • Actress
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Collected Meditations
Showing 48 quotesThe Sennett system of making pictures was actually fun. You never knew what the person next to you was going to do.— Gloria Swanson
The Paramount executives were so pleased with Sunset Boulevard that they asked me to do a publicity tour.— Gloria Swanson
Sam Wood, the director, made most of his money as a real estate agent; there was nothing of the temperamental artist about him.— 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
My sculpture is very personal; for years my subjects were family and close, close friends.— Gloria Swanson
I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book.— Gloria Swanson
Life and death. They are somehow sweetly and beautifully mixed, but I don't know how.— Gloria Swanson
I didn't want to spend the rest of my life playing Norma Desmond over and over again.— Gloria Swanson
I entered the cosmetics industry because I wanted more women to use cosmetics made with safe, healthful ingredients.— Gloria Swanson
Tennessee Williams was a gifted talker with a beautiful accent and we had lots of things in common.— Gloria Swanson
I was 25 and the most popular celebrity in the world, with the possible exception of my friend Mary Pickford.— Gloria Swanson