Gloria Swanson Quotes

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

  Gloria Swanson

  Inspirational, Life, Time

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

  Gloria Swanson

  Thinking, Years, Age

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Gloria Swanson

  Fun, Fame, Ran

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• Nobody gets anything for nothing.

  Gloria Swanson

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• 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

  Past, Actors, Fool

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

  Gloria Swanson

  Body, Results, Wells

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

  Gloria Swanson

  Book, Divorce, Given

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Sunset, Swimming, People

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

  Gloria Swanson

  Failure, Years, Ifs

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• My mother and I could always look out the same window without ever seeing the same thing.

  Gloria Swanson

  Mother, Looks, Window

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

  Gloria Swanson

  Women, Memorable, Years

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• As Daddy said, life is 95 percent anticipation.

  Gloria Swanson

  Life, Father, Daddy

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Hollywood's old trick: repeat a successful formula until it dies.

  Gloria Swanson

  Movie, Successful, Hollywood

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

  Gloria Swanson

  Names, Watches, Marquee

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Gloria Swanson

  Complaining, Stories, Bills

  Quoted in Saturday Evening Post, 22 July 1950

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• 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

  Long, Enough Chances, Able

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• 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

  Dream, Taken, Dark

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

  Gloria Swanson

  Skeletons, Years, Buried

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Gloria Swanson

  Art, Brain, Example

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

  Gloria Swanson

  Sound, Actors, Shifting

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• Writing the story of your own life is a bit like drilling your own teeth.

  Gloria Swanson

  Writing, Teeth, Stories

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• Nobody gets something for nothing.

  Gloria Swanson

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

  Gloria Swanson

  Life And Death, Know How, Knows

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

  Gloria Swanson

  Want

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• 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

  Stars, Long, Gone

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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