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Gloria Swanson

Gloria Swanson
Born: 1899-03-27
Died: 1983-04-04
IMDB Filmography






Jan
07
2011

I'm a star

Sunset Boulevard
From: Sunset Boulevard

You heard him... I'm a star.

Gloria Swanson (Norma Desmond)
#Ego
#Acting
Jan
07
2011

We had faces

Sunset Boulevard
From: Sunset Boulevard

(movie projector running) Still wonderful, isn't it? And no dialogue. We didn't need dialogue, we had faces. There just aren't any faces like that anymore. Maybe one, Garbo. Oh, those idiot producers. Those imbeciles. Haven't they got any eyes? Have they forgotten what a star looks like?! I'll show them! I'll be up there again, so help me!

Gloria Swanson (Norma Desmond)
File Updated: 2017-10-28

#Acting
#Movies
#Beauty
#Ego
#Idiots
#Conceit
#Self-Delusion
Jan
04
2011

Max!

Sunset Boulevard
From: Sunset Boulevard

Max!

Gloria Swanson (Norma Desmond)
#Names
#Exclamations
Jan
04
2011

It's the pictures that got small

Sunset Boulevard
From: Sunset Boulevard

You're Norma Desmond! You used to be in silent pictures. You used to be big. –I am big. It's the pictures that got small.

William Holden (Joe Gillis) | Gloria Swanson (Norma Desmond)
File Updated: 2017-10-28

#Movies
#Acting
#Ego
#AFI Top 100 Quotes
#Conceit
Mar
29
2002

I'm ready for my close-up

Sunset Boulevard
From: Sunset Boulevard

You see, this is my life, it always will be. There's nothing else... just us and the cameras and those wonderful people out there in the dark. All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up.

Gloria Swanson (Norma Desmond)
#Movies
#Acting
#Ego
#Photography
#AFI Top 100 Quotes

Born Today

Ivor Barry  •  12 Apr 1919
Nicholas Brendon  •  12 Apr 1971
Claire Danes  •  12 Apr 1979
Shannen Doherty  •  12 Apr 1971
Dan Lauria  •  12 Apr 1947
David Letterman  •  12 Apr 1947
Ed O'Neill  •  12 Apr 1946
Magda Szubanski  •  12 Apr 1961

Died Today

Franklin Delano Roosevelt  •  12 Apr 1945

Died This Year

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