Gloria Swanson

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

The fuss that actors began making about the difficulty of shifting to sound struck me as perfectly foolish.

I always anticipated difficulties in order to avoid scenes.

Sam Wood, the director, made most of his money as a real estate agent; there was nothing of the temperamental artist about him.

Fame was thrilling only until it became grueling. Money was fun only until you ran out of things to buy.

All they had to do was put my name on a marquee and watch the money roll in.

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

The Paramount executives were so pleased with Sunset Boulevard that they asked me to do a publicity tour.

My mother and I could always look out the same window without ever seeing the same thing.

I was the first celebrity in pictures to be marrying a titled European.

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.