Gloria Swanson Quotes

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Every victory is also a defeat. Nobody gets anything for nothing.

Gloria Swanson
My mother and I could always look out the same window without ever seeing the same thing.

Gloria Swanson
I have decided that while I am a star I will be every inch and every moment the star. Everyone from the studio gateman to the highest executive will know it.

Gloria Swanson
Writing the story of your own life, I now know, is an agonizing experience, a bit like drilling your own teeth.

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I'll be eighty this month. Age, if nothing else, entitles me to set the record straight before I dissolve. I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book.

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I hate that word. It's return – a return to the millions of people who've never forgiven me for deserting the screen.

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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.

Gloria Swanson
Hollywood's old trick: repeat a successful formula until it dies.

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

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

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Working for Mr. DeMille was like playing house in the world's most expensive department store.

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He wore baldness like an expensive hat, as if it were out of the question for him to have hair like other men.

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Never say never, for if you live long enough, chances are you will not be able to abide by its restrictions. Never is a long, undependable time, and life is too full of rich possibilities to have restrictions placed upon it.

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