Gloria Swanson

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

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

The only time I ever went hunting I remembered it as a grisly experience.

The first feminine feature that goes, with advancing age, is the neck.

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

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

Nobody gets anything for nothing.

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

I am a very pragmatic person.

I always anticipated difficulties in order to avoid scenes.

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

I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book.

Life and death. They are somehow sweetly and beautifully mixed, but I don't know how.

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

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

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

Tennessee Williams was a gifted talker with a beautiful accent and we had lots of things in common.

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

I consider anybody who weighs over 200 pounds fat, and time was when I could not refrain from telling such people so.

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