Top 48 Quotes by Gloria Swanson

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

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

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

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

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

As Daddy said, life is 95 percent anticipation.

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

I feel sure that unborn babies pick their parents.

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

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