At 26 I felt myself a victim rather than a victor in the realm of pictures.
From Gloria Swanson
By the time I was 15, my mother had turned me into a real clotheshorse.
Fame was thrilling only until it became grueling. Money was fun only until you ran out of things to buy.
Nobody gets anything for nothing.
One of the networks sent me a TV set to watch. I didn't care for the medium. It depressed me.
The English press treated the world premiere of my first talking picture as a major event.
I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book.
Life and death. They are somehow sweetly and beautifully mixed, but I don't know how.
Sunset Boulevard opened in August 1950, and it was pronounced the best movie ever made about Hollywood.
As Daddy said, life is 95 percent anticipation.
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