Gloria Swanson

"Actors and actresses are overrated...Once just a few people knew about them. Then films started and we found ourselves canned like sardines and sent all over the world. It gave us an exaggerated idea of our importance. A scientist who saves thousands of lives is much more important. I wouldnt be twenty years old today for anything. Films arent entertainments any more, they are realism. I come out of these films positively exhausted. I want to throw up."

"Think what youve just said. All foods should be healthy. We ate meat without any of the things they inject in cows and chickens these days. Bread tasted like bread. Now everything is refined, teens are fat, people have heart attacks at 39. Does that make me nuts? [...] In the thirties I was told I had a tumor down there. I met with a surgeon who was puffy faced and sweating and his hands trembled. He said he wanted to cut through my rectum to get at the growth. I stood and shouted, "Physician, heal thyself!" and I simply fled. A pure bean sprouts diet cured me in months and the tumor shrank and disappeared. I rest my case."

"Ill be eighty this month. Age, if nothing else, entitles me to set the record straight before I dissolve. Ive given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You cant divorce a book."