Gloria Swanson

I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book.

I consider anybody who weighs over 200 pounds fat, and time was when I could not refrain from telling such people so.

Sam Wood, the director, made most of his money as a real estate agent; there was nothing of the temperamental artist about him.

It's a terrifying thing to be perhaps 16 or 17 and feel like you are a failure and a has-been.

I have written about the dispossessed, immigrants, the condition of women who do not enjoy the same legal rights as men, the Palestinians who are deprived of their land and condemned to exile.

I would've done anything to work with Satyajit Ray.