Gloria Swanson Quotes
"I have decided that when I am a star, I will be every inch and every moment a star."
"All creative people should be required to leave California for three months every year."
"I think all this talk about age is foolish. Every time I'm one year older, everyone else is too."
"I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book."
"When I die, my epitaph should read: She Paid the Bills. That's the story of my private life."
"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." - in 1922
"It's the saddest night of my life. I'm just twenty six. Where do I go from here?" [Swanson to her mother following her triumphant return to Hollywood in 1925 after making Madame Sans Gene in France.]
"I was holding out for a picture I could take my grandchildren to see, something exciting and contemporary without senseless violence." (On her role in
Airport 1975)
"I played my comedies like Duse, which is probably why I was so funny." (on her pre-deMille years as a comedienne at Mack Sennet)
"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."
On
Marlene Dietrich: "Her legs may be longer than mine, but unlike me, she doesn't have 7 grandchildren."
After 16 years in pictures I could not be intimidated easily, because I knew where all the skeletons were buried.
After seven years in one place, not to mention two marriages and 32 pictures, I felt I had earned a vacation.
After years of negotiating, I felt bitter and resentful about Mr. Lasky and Paramount and I knew I always would.
All creative people should be required to leave California for three months every year.
A crisis arose when several newspapers questioned whether my singing voice was real. I had not sung-they wanted to know why.
