Gloria Swanson

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

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. ”

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. ”