72 Quotes by Gloria Swanson

I didn't want to spend the rest of my life playing Norma Desmond over and over again.

I had starred in more than 30 successful films, six in a row directed by Cecil B. De Mille.

The Sennett system of making pictures was actually fun. You never knew what the person next to you was going to do.

At 26 I felt myself a victim rather than a victor in the realm of pictures.

The major gossip columnists were more concerned with protecting the industry than with gunning down sinners.

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

All creative people should be required to leave California for three months every year.

I think all this talk about age is foolish. Every time I'm one year older, everyone else is too.

Hollywood's old trick: repeat a successful formula until it dies.