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Gloria Swanson [1899-1983] American

Rank: 101
Actress

Gloria May Josephine Swanson was an American actress and producer best known for her role as Norma Desmond, a reclusive silent film star, in the critically acclaimed 1950 film Sunset Boulevard.

Dad, Death, Experience, Failure, Fitness, Health, Parenting, Romantic, Time, Women

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I entered the cosmetics industry because I wanted more women to use cosmetics made with safe, healthful ingredients.	Women	101
The only time I ever went hunting I remembered it as a grisly experience.	Experience, Time	102
I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book.		103
As Daddy said, life is 95 percent anticipation.	Dad	104
I am a very pragmatic person.		105
The Paramount executives were so pleased with Sunset Boulevard that they asked me to do a publicity tour.		106
If you're 40 years old and you've never had a failure, you've been deprived.	Failure	107
Writing the story of your own life is a bit like drilling your own teeth.		108
Because I take care of my body, it doesn't look like the body of a woman of my years.	Fitness	109
I feel sure that unborn babies pick their parents.	Parenting	110
Life and death. They are somehow sweetly and beautifully mixed, but I don't know how.	Death	111
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.		112
My sculpture is very personal; for years my subjects were family and close, close friends.		113
Sunset Boulevard opened in August 1950, and it was pronounced the best movie ever made about Hollywood.		114
Your body is the direct result of what you eat as well as what you don't eat.		115
My mother and I could always look out the same window without ever seeing the same thing.		116
Sam Wood, the director, made most of his money as a real estate agent; there was nothing of the temperamental artist about him.		117
Fame was thrilling only until it became grueling. Money was fun only until you ran out of things to buy.		118
I always anticipated difficulties in order to avoid scenes.		119
I became a fanatic about healthy food in 1944.	Health	120
I consider anybody who weighs over 200 pounds fat, and time was when I could not refrain from telling such people so.		121
I was married when I was 17. I knew nothing. I was full of romance.	Romantic	122
Nobody gets anything for nothing.		123
We lived on the Key West Army Base. Key West for me was a tropical island paradise.		124
I am big. It's the pictures that got small.		125
When I die, my epitaph should read: She Paid the Bills. That's the story of my private life.		126
All creative people should be required to leave California for three months every year.		201
After 16 years in pictures I could not be intimidated easily, because I knew where all the skeletons were buried.		202
All they had to do was put my name on a marquee and watch the money roll in.		203
At 26 I felt myself a victim rather than a victor in the realm of pictures.		204
I was 25 and the most popular celebrity in the world, with the possible exception of my friend Mary Pickford.		205
I was the first celebrity in pictures to be marrying a titled European.		206
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.		207
The first feminine feature that goes, with advancing age, is the neck.		208
The fuss that actors began making about the difficulty of shifting to sound struck me as perfectly foolish.		209
The major gossip columnists were more concerned with protecting the industry than with gunning down sinners.		210
The day I initiated divorce proceedings against Michael Farmer, I was ready to retire to a desert cave and rethink my life.		211
By the time I was 15, my mother had turned me into a real clotheshorse.		212
From the first moment on the set I was consumed with curiousity about the technical side of shooting a sound picture.		213
I didn't want to spend the rest of my life playing Norma Desmond over and over again.		214
I doubted that there were Communists hiding behind every corporation desk and director's chair.		215
I had starred in more than 30 successful films, six in a row directed by Cecil B. De Mille.		216
In two months Joseph Kennedy had taken over my entire life, and I trusted him implicitly to make the most of it.		217
One of the networks sent me a TV set to watch. I didn't care for the medium. It depressed me.		218
Tennessee Williams was a gifted talker with a beautiful accent and we had lots of things in common.		219
The English press treated the world premiere of my first talking picture as a major event.		220
The Sennett system of making pictures was actually fun. You never knew what the person next to you was going to do.		221
There was no place at all for me in my father's military world.		222

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