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Quotes from Gloria Swanson


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

    Difficulty | Sound | Foolish


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

    Time | Mother | Turned


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

    Life | Spend | Rest


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

    Care | Watch | Medium


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

    Beautiful | Tennessee | Accent


    The English press treated the world premiere of my first talking picture as a major event.

    Picture | Talking | English


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

    Pictures | Next | System


    There was no place at all for me in my father's military world.

    Father | Military


    In two months Joseph Kennedy had taken over my entire life, and I trusted him implicitly to make the most of it.

    Life | Trusted | Months


    The major gossip columnists were more concerned with protecting the industry than with gunning down sinners.

    Gossip | Concerned | Industry


    The day I initiated divorce proceedings against Michael Farmer, I was ready to retire to a desert cave and rethink my life.

    Life | Desert | Farmer


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

    Age | Neck | Feature


    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.

    Love | Today | Greatest


    I was the first celebrity in pictures to be marrying a titled European.

    Celebrity | Pictures


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

    Friend | Possible | Celebrity


    At 26 I felt myself a victim rather than a victor in the realm of pictures.

    Victim | Pictures | Rather


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

    Money | Name | Watch


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

    Pictures | Skeletons | Knew


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

    Creative | Three | California


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

    Life | Die | Bills


       

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