Gloria Swanson quotes Born: 03/27/1899 Died: 04/04/1983 Country: usa

• A crisis arose when several newspapers questioned whether my singing voice was real. I had not sung-they wanted to know why. (Gloria Swanson) [crisis]
• After 16 years in pictures I could not be intimidated easily, because I knew where all the skeletons were buried. (Gloria Swanson)
• After seven years in one place, not to mention two marriages and 32 pictures, I felt I had earned a vacation. (Gloria Swanson) [vacation]
• All creative people should be required to leave California for three months every year. (Gloria Swanson) [people]
• All they had to do was put my name on a marquee and watch the money roll in. (Gloria Swanson) [watch/money]
• Americans were in no mood to see a group of high-born Britishers engage in well-spoken domestic squabbles in the courts and on the French Riviera. (Gloria Swanson) [group]
• As Daddy said, life is 95 percent anticipation. (Gloria Swanson) [life]
• At 26 I felt myself a victim rather than a victor in the realm of pictures. (Gloria Swanson)
• Because I take care of my body, it doesn't look like the body of a woman of my years. (Gloria Swanson) [take/care/soul & body/look]
• Billy Wilder provided us all with the time of our lives. He had also brought in a blockbuster. (Gloria Swanson) [time]
• By the time I was 15, my mother had turned me into a real clotheshorse. (Gloria Swanson) [time/mother]
• Edith Head and I created perfect clothes for my character-a trifle exotic, a trifle exaggerated, a trifle out of date. (Gloria Swanson) [perfect/clothes]
• Every victory is also a defeat. (Gloria Swanson) [defeat]
• Fame was thrilling only until it became grueling. Money was fun only until you ran out of things to buy. (Gloria Swanson) [fame/money]
• For weeks I lay between life and death in a Paris hospital, having nightmares about the child I had killed, wishing I were dead myself. (Gloria Swanson) [life/death/child]
• From the first moment on the set I was consumed with curiousity about the technical side of shooting a sound picture. (Gloria Swanson) [moment/sound]
• Gertrude Astor, the star of the showboat company, and I had a long fight scene, in which both of us wore boxing gloves and swimsuits. (Gloria Swanson) [company/fight/boxing]
• Hollywood abounded with driven creatures endlessly looking for solace or compensation in alcohol, drugs, and sex. (Gloria Swanson) [sex]
• I always anticipated difficulties in order to avoid scenes. (Gloria Swanson) [order]
• I am a very pragmatic person. (Gloria Swanson)
• I became a fanatic about healthy food in 1944. (Gloria Swanson) [food]
• I consider anybody who weighs over 200 pounds fat, and time was when I could not refrain from telling such people so. (Gloria Swanson) [time/people]
• I didn't want to spend the rest of my life playing Norma Desmond over and over again. (Gloria Swanson) [rest/life]
• I don't like surgeons cutting into me the minute I have a pain somewhere. (Gloria Swanson) [pain]
• I doubted that there were Communists hiding behind every corporation desk and director's chair. (Gloria Swanson)
• I entered the cosmetics industry because I wanted more women to use cosmetics made with safe, healthful ingredients. (Gloria Swanson) [more/women]
• I feel sure that unborn babies pick their parents. (Gloria Swanson) [parents]
• I gave way to feelings of doom before the night was over and dived from the high dive into their swimming pool, fully dressed. (Gloria Swanson) [feelings/night/high]
• I had always wanted to paint seriously. (Gloria Swanson) [seriously]
• I had finally made it to Broadway, in utter triumph, at 51. (Gloria Swanson)
• I had had to sneak to a French surgeon like a criminal and sacrifice a child I was carrying. (Gloria Swanson) [child]

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