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I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book.

Gloria Swanson

Thought

Divorce

Sunset Boulevard opened in August 1950, and it was pronounced the best movie ever made about Hollywood.

Gloria Swanson

Hollywood

Sunset

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

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

Gloria Swanson

Care

Nobody gets anything for nothing.

Gloria Swanson

Nothing

My sculpture is very personal; for years my subjects were family and close, close friends.

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

Gloria Swanson

Publicity

Sunset

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

Gloria Swanson

Celebrity

First

If you're 40 years old and you've never had a failure, you've been deprived.

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

Gloria Swanson

Life

Months

Life and death. They are somehow sweetly and beautifully mixed, but I don't know how.

Gloria Swanson

Life

Death

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

Gloria Swanson

Mother

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.

When I die, my epitaph should read: She Paid the Bills. That's the story of my private life.

Gloria Swanson

Life

The day I initiated divorce proceedings against Michael Farmer, I was ready to retire to a desert cave and rethink my life.