Gloria Swanson Quotations

Nobody gets something for nothing.

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

It's amazing to find that so many people, who I thought really knew me, could have thought that 'Sunset Boulevard' was autobiographical. I've got nobody floating in my swimming pool.

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

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.

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

I was married when I was 17. I knew nothing. I was full of romance.

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.

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

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