Nobody gets anything for nothing.

- Gloria Swanson

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.

- Gloria Swanson

All creative people should be required to leave California for three months every year.

- Gloria Swanson

Fame was thrilling only until it became grueling. Money was fun only until you ran out of things to buy.

- Gloria Swanson

I think all this talk about age is foolish. Every time I'm one year older, everyone else is too.

- Gloria Swanson

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

- Gloria Swanson

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

- Gloria Swanson

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

- Gloria Swanson

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 nob…

- Gloria Swanson