Top 48 Quotes by Gloria Swanson

I entered the cosmetics industry because I wanted more women to use cosmetics made with safe, healthful ingredients.

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.

As Daddy said, life is 95 percent anticipation.

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

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

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

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

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

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