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

Quote by Gloria Swanson

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

At 26 I felt myself a victim rather than a victor in the realm of...

At 26 I felt myself a victim rather than a victor in the realm of...

The day I initiated divorce proceedings against Michael Farmer, I was ready to retire to...

The day I initiated divorce proceedings against Michael Farmer, I was ready to retire to...

Fame was thrilling only until it became grueling. Money was fun only until you ran...

Fame was thrilling only until it became grueling. Money was fun only until you ran...

The Sennett system of making pictures was actually fun. You never knew what the person...

The Sennett system of making pictures was actually fun. You never knew what the person...

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

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

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

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

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

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

I am big. It's the pictures that got small.

I am big. It's the pictures that got small.

I doubted that there were Communists hiding behind every corporation desk and director's chair.

I doubted that there were Communists hiding behind every corporation desk and director's chair.

I am a very pragmatic person.

I am a very pragmatic person.

Tennessee Williams was a gifted talker with a beautiful accent and we had lots of...

Tennessee Williams was a gifted talker with a beautiful accent and we had lots of...

I was married when I was 17. I knew nothing. I was full of romance.

I was married when I was 17. I knew nothing. I was full of romance.

Nobody gets anything for nothing.

Nobody gets anything for nothing.

I feel sure that unborn babies pick their parents.

I feel sure that unborn babies pick their parents.

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

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