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Gloria Swanson
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“[On her passport photo:] If I look like this, I need the trip!”
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“I'll be eighty this month. Age, if nothing else, entitles me to set the record straight before I dissolve. I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book.”
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“I have decided that while I am a star I will be every inch and every moment the star. Everyone from the studio gateman to the highest executive will know it.”
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“Writing the story of your own life, I now know, is an agonizing experience, a bit like drilling your own teeth.”
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“My mother and I could always look out the same window without ever seeing the same thing.”
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“... every victory is also a defeat. Nobody gets anything for nothing.”
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“I feel sure that unborn babies pick their parents.”
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“... Hollywood's old trick: repeat a successful formula until it dies.”
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“In a theater you can fool everyone past the tenth row if you're good, but on the screen you can't really fool anyone for a second.”
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“He wore baldness like an expensive hat, as if it were out of the question for him to have hair like other men.”
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“All creative people should be required to leave California for three months every year.”
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“At the London airport a few years ago I was interviewed for ten minutes before I discovered the interviewer thought I was Tallulah Bankhead. And Miss Bankhead had already been dead for three months — if you can believe The New York Times.”
Gloria Swanson, U.S. actor, producer, businesswoman
(1899 - 1983)
Full name: Gloria May Josephine Swanson.