Gloria Swanson Famous Quotes

Never say never, for if you live long enough, chances are you will not be able to abide by the simplest of such injunctions. ~ Gloria Swanson

Nobody gets something for nothing. ~ Gloria Swanson

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

As Daddy said, life is 95 percent anticipation. ~ Gloria Swanson

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

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

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

Sunset Boulevard opened in August 1950, and it was pronounced the best movie ever made about Hollywood. ~ Gloria Swanson

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

I think all this talk about age is foolish. Every time I'm one year older, everyone else is too. ~ Gloria Swanson

I always anticipated difficulties in order to avoid scenes. ~ Gloria Swanson

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

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

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

I had starred in more than 30 successful films, six in a row directed by Cecil B. De Mille. ~ Gloria Swanson

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

Life and death. They are somehow sweetly and beautifully mixed, but I don't know how. ~ Gloria Swanson

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

Nobody gets anything for nothing. ~ Gloria Swanson

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

From the first moment on the set I was consumed with curiousity about the technical side of shooting a sound picture. ~ Gloria Swanson

If you're 40 years old and you've never had a failure, you've been deprived. ~ Gloria Swanson

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

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

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

I doubted that there were Communists hiding behind every corporation desk and director's chair. ~ Gloria Swanson

Because I take care of my body, it doesn't look like the body of a woman of my years. ~ Gloria Swanson

Never say never Never is a long, undependable time, and life is too full of rich possibilities to have restrictions placed upon it. ~ Gloria Swanson

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

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

The Paramount executives were so pleased with Sunset Boulevard that they asked me to do a publicity tour. ~ Gloria Swanson

Your body is the direct result of what you eat as well as what you don't eat. ~ Gloria Swanson

The only time I ever went hunting I remembered it as a grisly experience. ~ Gloria Swanson

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

Fame was thrilling only until it became grueling. Money was fun only until you ran out of things to buy. ~ Gloria Swanson

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

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

Writing the story of your own life is a bit like drilling your own teeth. ~ Gloria Swanson

I have gone through a long apprenticeship. I have gone through enough of being a nobody. I have decided that when I am a star, I will be every inch and every moment the star! Everybody from the studio gateman to the highest executive will know it. ~ Gloria Swanson

Swanson's First Law of Directions: Those who can read, don't. ~ Dixie Swanson

I read Gloria Swanson's autobiography just because I wanted to know what it was like in the time. ~ Berenice Bejo

I didn't write to be famous; I wrote to keep a record. ~ Gloria Emerson

Never half-ass two things. Whole-ass one thing ~ Ron Swanson

So they were turning, after all - those cameras. Life, which can be strangely merciful, had taken pity on Norma Desmond. The dream she had clung to so desperately had enfolded her. Norma: You see, this is my life. It always will be! (In a whisper) There's nothing else - just us - and the cameras - and those wonderful people out there in the dark. All right, Mr. De Mille, I'm ready for my close-up. ~ Gloria Swanson

I was born ready, I'm Ron F****** Swanson ~ Ron Swanson

There's only one thing I hate more than lying... Skim milk. which is water that's lying about being milk. Ron Swanson. ~ Ron Swanson

From dear, dear Gloria Swanson, I learned how to live long, happy and free of health problems. I owe her my life. ~ Dirk Benedict

he spent most days in a haze of disinterest. ~ Peter Swanson

Strangers are just friends we haven't met yet. ~ Peter Swanson

Everybody is tense. Tad does his best to ~ William Swanson

Be Mindful of Death" (Memento Mori) ~ Peter Swanson

Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it. --George Santyana ~ Richie Swanson

Did the continents, I wondered, feel lonely for each other as they drifted apart eons ago? ~ Cidney Swanson

For the record, chocolate's a pretty decent antidote for unrequited love. ~ Cidney Swanson

any life at all is probably more than any of us deserves. ~ Peter Swanson

to go to bed, and that's when I saw him there, ~ Peter Swanson

I imagine she acted the way she thought you wanted to see her. ~ Peter Swanson

I tried to sleep, falling into a doze as thin as tissue paper, ~ Peter Swanson

Your words can change the course of your life, don't be afraid. ~ Annisa Swanson

We want to take our rugged individualism and turn it into a rugged covenantalism. ~ Kevin Swanson

I'm a simple man. I like pretty dark-haired women and breakfast food. ~ Ron Swanson

Try not to let your mind wander ... it's too small and fragile to be out by itself. ~ Denise Swanson

Men are like horoscopes," Trixie cut Skye off. "They always tell you what to do and are usually wrong. ~ Denise Swanson

Only the incomprehensibilities of a Triune God could explain the impossibilities of human philosophy. ~ Kevin Swanson

The sovereignty of God has been dying a slow death of a thousand qualifications. ~ Kevin Swanson

I know this doesn't last forever, so I'm cherishing every minute of it. ~ Cub Swanson

Psa 73:25 Whom have I in heaven but you? And earth has nothing I desire besides you. ~ Jeff Swanson

Whenever I'm asked what kind of writing is the most lucrative, I have to say ransom notes. ~ H.N. Swanson

I've been trying to figure something out. Why on earth would your ponytail stick straight out from your head? ~ Cidney Swanson

I know, right. I keep thinking ~ Peter Swanson

I and others on FIFA executive committee agreed to accept bribes in conjunction with selection of South Africa as host nation. ~ Bryan Swanson

Of course in Miami, not denouncing Fidel Castro at every turn is almost as bad as saying Gloria Estefan can't sing. ~ Gloria Estefan

Imagine Jon Stewart if he gave a damn. He's like Howard Zinn after 12 beers. ~ David Swanson

My parents were like the kind of people who read the 'Enquirer' and believed everything it said. ~ Kristy Swanson

What makes you different, makes you exceptional, Fern. ~ Kara Swanson

The war is bloodiest when the enemy knows he's losing. ~ Luke Swanson

Freedom cannot exist without morality, and morality can only be defined by the God who, by definition is the source of morality ~ Kevin Swanson

I watch an awful lot of old Hollywood movies - I'll devour anything with Bette Davis or Joan Crawford. My absolute favourite is 'Sunset Boulevard' starring Gloria Swanson. ~ Amanda Donohoe

Activism has always been the driving force for change. ~ David Swanson

It turns out that we literally don't empathize unless we're physically present - that the oxytocin, the famous "tend and befriend" hormone is not produced unless we're present with all five senses. ~ Gloria Steinem

Wonder is a verb. An activity, like walking or eating cheese. Despite what we may think we are all already philosophers; the question simply is whether we do it well or poorly. ~ Thomas Swanson

Not only are you hurting yourself but you are hurting those around you ~ Joshua Swanson

I wasn't an overbearing child. But I was aggressive. I always managed to get what I wanted somehow. ~ Kristy Swanson

If you educate an idiot, you end up with an educated idiot. ~ Robert Clarence Swanson

I've been fortunate enough in my career that I haven't been typecast at all. ~ Kristy Swanson

The loss of psalmody in the church is one of the early indicators of the loss of faith. ~ Kevin Swanson

Good deeds, create good will, which opens the heart to the good news. ~ Eric Swanson

Life is totally unbelievable. Enjoy it at its fullest, with no regrets. ~ Gloria E. Gherardi

Typically, I like to talk and meet with actors face to face well before we start shooting. ~ Christine Swanson

Many artists in Mexico fight to be the Latina Madonna. I don't want that! Never! Maybe she's the American Gloria Trevi! ~ Gloria Trevi

I can't ask for every movie I make to be great and brilliant. I can only try. ~ Kristy Swanson

Her hand was like a bundle of chopsticks covered in a layer of tissue paper. ~ Peter Swanson, Her Every Fear

Going to school at home saved my life as far as education went. My parents were able to give me the attention I needed. ~ Kristy Swanson

It was a beautiful spring night, the air rain-washed and smelling of crushed blossoms, and Henry felt as if the muscles of his body were singing in unison. ~ Peter Swanson

My family was musical on both sides. My father's family had a famous flautist and a classical pianist. My mother won a contest to be Shirley Temple's double - she was the diva of the family. At 8, I learned how to play guitar. I used to play songs from the '20s, '30s and '40s in the kitchen for my grandmother. ~ Gloria Estefan

I don't want to be famous for being famous. ~ Kelli O'Hara

While the world is "entertaining themselves to death," we are working and resting. This is the essence of the fourth commandment. We work for God and we rest in God (Heb. 4: 10). ~ Kevin Swanson

That's my personality - to end up taking the hardest road possible to get to the top. But I think I will get there. ~ Cub Swanson

The Psalms draw a hard and fast distinction between the righteous and the wicked, something that is not appreciated in a period of religious syncretism. ~ Kevin Swanson

Seeing Tristan had never been the nightmare. My desire to be' normal' was - to become something I was never meant to be. Safe and complacent. To survive, but not to live.
'There's so much more than that. ~ Kara Swanson