Gloria Swanson

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

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

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

The day I initiated divorce proceedings against Michael Farmer, I was ready to retire to a desert cave and rethink my life.

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

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.

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

Much as I cared for Joseph Kennedy, he was a classic example of that person in the arts with lots of brains and drive but little taste or talent.

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

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