72 Quotes by Gloria Swanson

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.

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

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

I have gone through a long apprenticeship. I have gone through enough of being a nobody. I have decided that when I am a star, I will be every inch and every moment the star! Everybody from the studio gateman to the highest executive will know it.

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

One of the networks sent me a TV set to watch. I didn't care for the medium. It depressed me.

Tennessee Williams was a gifted talker with a beautiful accent and we had lots of things in common.

The English press treated the world premiere of my first talking picture as a major event.