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

Gloria Swanson

Fun

We lived on the Key West Army Base. Key West for me was a tropical island paradise.

Much as I cared for Joseph Kennedy, he was a classic example of that person in the arts with lots of brains and drive but little taste or talent.

Writing the story of your own life is a bit like drilling your own teeth.

Your body is the direct result of what you eat as well as what you don't eat.

Gloria Swanson

Body

Result

The only time I ever went hunting I remembered it as a grisly experience.

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

Gloria Swanson

Gossip

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

The first feminine feature that goes, with advancing age, is the neck.

Gloria Swanson

Age

First

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

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

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

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Successful

I feel sure that unborn babies pick their parents.

Gloria Swanson

Babies

Parents

I entered the cosmetics industry because I wanted more women to use cosmetics made with safe, healthful ingredients.

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Women

Cosmetics

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