Sunset Boulevard opened in August 1950, and it was pronounced the best movie ever made about Hollywood.
- Gloria Swanson
Hollywood, Boulevard, Ever, August
I consider anybody who weighs over 200 pounds fat, and time was when I could not refrain from telling such people so.
- Gloria Swanson
Over, Anybody, Telling, Refrain
Tennessee Williams was a gifted talker with a beautiful accent and we had lots of things in common.
- Gloria Swanson
Beautiful, Lots, Talker, Tennessee
Life and death. They are somehow sweetly and beautifully mixed, but I don't know how.
- Gloria Swanson
Death, Life And Death, How, Sweetly
Sam Wood, the director, made most of his money as a real estate agent; there was nothing of the temperamental artist about him.
- Gloria Swanson
Artist, Director, Agent, Temperamental
I doubted that there were Communists hiding behind every corporation desk and director's chair.
- Gloria Swanson
Behind, Hiding, Doubted, Communists
Writing the story of your own life is a bit like drilling your own teeth.
- Gloria Swanson
Writing, Life Is A, Like, Drilling
In two months Joseph Kennedy had taken over my entire life, and I trusted him implicitly to make the most of it.
- Gloria Swanson
Over, Had, Months, Implicitly
The fuss that actors began making about the difficulty of shifting to sound struck me as perfectly foolish.
- Gloria Swanson
Difficulty, Making, Began, Struck
I was the first celebrity in pictures to be marrying a titled European.
- Gloria Swanson
Celebrity, First, European, Marrying
The only time I ever went hunting I remembered it as a grisly experience.
- Gloria Swanson
Remembered, Only, Ever, Only Time
Fame was thrilling only until it became grueling. Money was fun only until you ran out of things to buy.
- Gloria Swanson
Buy, Thrilling, Became, Ran
We lived on the Key West Army Base. Key West for me was a tropical island paradise.
- Gloria Swanson
Island, Army, Tropical, Base
All they had to do was put my name on a marquee and watch the money roll in.
- Gloria Swanson
Money, Name, Watch, Marquee
The day I initiated divorce proceedings against Michael Farmer, I was ready to retire to a desert cave and rethink my life.
- Gloria Swanson
My Life, Cave, Initiated, Rethink
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
Example, Taste, Lots, Joseph
If you're 40 years old and you've never had a failure, you've been deprived.
- Gloria Swanson
Never, Old, Been, Deprived
I am a very pragmatic person.
- Gloria Swanson
I Am, Person, Very, Pragmatic
I had starred in more than 30 successful films, six in a row directed by Cecil B. De Mille.
- Gloria Swanson
Six, Films, Directed, Cecil
When I die, my epitaph should read: She Paid the Bills. That's the story of my private life.
- Gloria Swanson
Die, Private, Read, Epitaph
As Daddy said, life is 95 percent anticipation.
- Gloria Swanson
Anticipation, Said, Dad, Daddy
I entered the cosmetics industry because I wanted more women to use cosmetics made with safe, healthful ingredients.
- Gloria Swanson
More, Made, Use, Ingredients
One of the networks sent me a TV set to watch. I didn't care for the medium. It depressed me.
- Gloria Swanson
Medium, TV, Set, Depressed
The first feminine feature that goes, with advancing age, is the neck.
- Gloria Swanson
Goes, Feminine, Feature, Advancing
The Paramount executives were so pleased with Sunset Boulevard that they asked me to do a publicity tour.
- Gloria Swanson
Asked, Boulevard, Executives, Sunset
I was 25 and the most popular celebrity in the world, with the possible exception of my friend Mary Pickford.
- Gloria Swanson
Celebrity, Exception, Mary, Popular
I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book.
- Gloria Swanson
Thought, Memoirs, Given, Divorce
At 26 I felt myself a victim rather than a victor in the realm of pictures.
- Gloria Swanson
Myself, Rather, Than, Victor
My sculpture is very personal; for years my subjects were family and close, close friends.
- Gloria Swanson
Close Friends, Very, Were, Close
I became a fanatic about healthy food in 1944.
- Gloria Swanson
Health, Healthy, Became, Fanatic
The English press treated the world premiere of my first talking picture as a major event.
- Gloria Swanson
World, Treated, Major, Premiere
I always anticipated difficulties in order to avoid scenes.
- Gloria Swanson
Difficulties, Always, Scenes
The major gossip columnists were more concerned with protecting the industry than with gunning down sinners.
- Gloria Swanson
Concerned, Protecting, Major, Sinners
After 16 years in pictures I could not be intimidated easily, because I knew where all the skeletons were buried.
- Gloria Swanson
Knew, Could, Buried, Skeletons
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.
- Gloria Swanson
Love, Will, Always, Debt
From the first moment on the set I was consumed with curiousity about the technical side of shooting a sound picture.
- Gloria Swanson
Consumed, Side, Set, Picture
My mother and I could always look out the same window without ever seeing the same thing.
- Gloria Swanson
Always, Could, Same Thing, Window
All creative people should be required to leave California for three months every year.
- Gloria Swanson
Year, Leave, Months, Creative
Your body is the direct result of what you eat as well as what you don't eat.
- Gloria Swanson
Result, Eat, Direct, Your Body
The Sennett system of making pictures was actually fun. You never knew what the person next to you was going to do.
- Gloria Swanson
Never, Next, Actually, Pictures
I am big. It's the pictures that got small.
- Gloria Swanson
I Am, Small, Big, Pictures
There was no place at all for me in my father's military world.
- Gloria Swanson
Father, Me, World, Military
I feel sure that unborn babies pick their parents.
- Gloria Swanson
Parenting, Sure, Unborn, Babies
I didn't want to spend the rest of my life playing Norma Desmond over and over again.
- Gloria Swanson
Rest, My Life, Over, Spend
By the time I was 15, my mother had turned me into a real clotheshorse.
- Gloria Swanson
Mother, Me, By The Time, Turned
I was married when I was 17. I knew nothing. I was full of romance.
- Gloria Swanson
Romantic, Nothing, Knew, Romance
Because I take care of my body, it doesn't look like the body of a woman of my years.
- Gloria Swanson
Woman, Like, Take, Fitness
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