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 Gloria Swanson Quotation"I have decided that when I am a star, I will be every inch and every moment a star." "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." "I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book." "When I die, my epitaph should read: She Paid the Bills. That's the story of my private life." "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 1922 "It's the saddest night of my life. I'm just twenty six. Where do I go from here?" [Swanson to her mother following her triumphant return to Hollywood in 1925 after making Madame Sans Gene in France.] "I was holding out for a picture I could take my grandchildren to see, something exciting and contemporary without senseless violence." (On her role in Movie Title: Airport 1975) "I played my comedies like Duse, which is probably why I was so funny." (on her pre-deMille years as a comedienne at Mack Sennet) "It's amazing to find that so many people, who I thought really knew me, could have thought that 'Sunset Boulevard' was autobiographical. I've got nobody floating in my swimming pool." Movie Title: Sunset Blvd. (1950) as Norma Desmond: Joe Gillis : You're Norma Desmond. You used to be in silent pictures. You used to be big. Norma Desmond : I *am* big. It's the *pictures* that got small. Norma Desmond : They took the idols and smashed them, the Fairbankses, the Gilberts, the Valentinos! And who've we got now? Some nobodies! Joe Gillis : I didn't know you were planning a comeback. Norma Desmond : I hate that word. It's a return, a return to the millions of people who have never forgiven me for deserting the screen. Norma Desmond : We didn't need dialogue. We had faces! Joe Gillis : [sarcastically] They'll love it in Pomona. Norma Desmond : They'll love it everyplace. Norma Desmond : Don't be silly. [hands Joe a present] Norma Desmond : Here, I was going to give it to you at midnight. Joe Gillis : Norma, I can't take it, you've bought me enough. Norma Desmond : Shut up, I'm rich! I'm richer than all this new Hollywood trash! I've got a million dollars. Joe Gillis : Keep it. Norma Desmond : Own three blocks downtown, I've got oil in Bakersfiled, pumping, PUMPING, pumping! What's it for but to buy us anything we want! Joe Gillis : Cut out that "us" business! Norma Desmond : What's the matter with you? Joe Gillis : What right do you have to take me for granted? Norma Desmond : What right? Do you want me to tell you? Joe Gillis : Has it ever occurred to you that I may have a life of my own? That there may be some girl I'm crazy about? Norma Desmond : Who? Some car hop, or dress extra? Joe Gillis : What I'm trying to say is that I'm all wrong for you. You want a Valentino, somebody with polo ponies, a big shot! Norma Desmond : What you're trying to say is that you don't want me to love you. Say it. Say it! [slaps him hard across the face] Norma Desmond : [to newsreel camera] And I promise you I'll never desert you again because after 'Salome' we'll make another picture and another picture. You see, this is my life! It always will be! Nothing else! Just us, the cameras, and those wonderful people out there in the dark!... All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up. Norma Desmond : My astrologist has read my horoscope, he's read DeMille's horoscope. Joe Gillis : Has he read the script? Norma Desmond : There once was a time in this business when I had the eyes of the whole world! But that wasn't good enough for them, oh no! They had to have the ears of the whole world too. So they opened their big mouths and out came talk. Talk! TALK! Movie Title: Airport 1975 (1974) as Gloria Swanson: Gloria Swanson : ...my life's a surprise, one surprise after another. Mr. Kelly : You look lovely Miss Swanson. Gloria Swanson : Thank you Mr Kelly, fancy getting gussied up like this to watch a load of Supreme Court judges chew. Bill : This thing will never get off the ground. Never fly. Take my word for it. Gloria Swanson : Young man, you think this thing will not fly? In 1917 I was flying in something wilder than this. Do you know who the pilot was? Bill : Wiley Post? Gloria Swanson : [Chuckles] No. Cecil B. De Mille and we flew from Hollywood nonstop to Pasadena. Yes, and on the way home we did loop the loops so I could see the moon upside down. Winnie : Oh, it's so beautiful! Gloria Swanson : Every morning is beautiful, you're just too young to know! Gloria Swanson : The mountains - we're so close! [Recalling her days being a rebel with other actresses against studio pressure in Hollywood, while on the plane] Gloria Swanson : That's easy, Carole Lombard and Grace Moore, I was a rebel too. Gary : Would you hold this please, I'll take care of Miss Swanson. Good Evening, right this way please. Gloria Swanson : Thank you. Nancy Pryor : Good Evening Miss Swanson. Gloria Swanson : Good Evening. I mean, good morning! Gary : Right here, Miss Swanson. Gloria Swanson : [In reference to her bomb proof case] Oh yes, put it under my feet. Thank you very much. Gary : It's a pleasure to have with us, Miss Swanson. If there;s anything I can do for you, just let me know. Gloria Swanson : I shall. Sister Beatrice : Never mind her Sister, put your ticket away. Sister Ruth : Yes sister. Nancy Pryor : Miss Swanson, would you like something from the bar? Gloria Swanson : No I have my own, tea. Nancy Pryor : Miss Griffith? Winnie : Yes a Martini please. [securing items in her bomb-proof case] Gloria Swanson : To hell with the jewelry, let's put my book in here! [Gloria Swanson puts the tape recorder into the bomb-proof case] Gloria Swanson : Here you are my darlings! It's all yours. I didn't want the damn thing published when I was alive anyway. [in reference to Janice Abbott arriving on the stretcher] Gloria Swanson : Oh how bless I am, three children, seven grandchildren and all healthy thank God! Gloria Swanson : I guess everyone had given up hope including the Doctors. Nobody expected me to live, but then I've never done anything I was expected to do. Gloria Swanson : Do you know that my first trip to California took five days? So if we have to spend a weekend in Salt Lake, we're still ahead! |
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