Gloria Swanson Quotes
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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.
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The only time I ever went hunting I remembered it as a grisly experience.
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I was the first celebrity in pictures to be marrying a titled European.
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By the time I was 15, my mother had turned me into a real clotheshorse.
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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.
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My mother and I could always look out the same window without ever seeing the same thing.
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I became a fanatic about healthy food in 1944.
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The English press treated the world premiere of my first talking picture as a major event.
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Hollywood's old trick: repeat a successful formula until it dies.
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I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book.
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The day I initiated divorce proceedings against Michael Farmer, I was ready to retire to a desert cave and rethink my life.
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All creative people should be required to leave California for three months every year.
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I always anticipated difficulties in order to avoid scenes.
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The first feminine feature that goes, with advancing age, is the neck.
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I think all this talk about age is foolish. Every time I'm one year older, everyone else is too.
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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.
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Sam Wood, the director, made most of his money as a real estate agent; there was nothing of the temperamental artist about him.
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Writing the story of your own life is a bit like drilling your own teeth.
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At 26, I felt myself a victim rather than a victor in the realm of pictures.
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Life and death. They are somehow sweetly and beautifully mixed, but I don't know how.
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There was no place at all for me in my father's military world.
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The Paramount executives were so pleased with Sunset Boulevard that they asked me to do a publicity tour.
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When I die, my epitaph should read: She Paid the Bills. That's the story of my private life.
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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.
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Never say never Never is a long, undependable time, and life is too full of rich possibilities to have restrictions placed upon it.
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The major gossip columnists were more concerned with protecting the industry than with gunning down sinners.
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My sculpture is very personal; for years my subjects were family and close, close friends.
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One of the networks sent me a TV set to watch. I didn't care for the medium. It depressed me.
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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.
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I doubted that there were Communists hiding behind every corporation desk and director's chair.
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