"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 wouldn't be twenty years old today for anything. Films aren't entertainments any more, they are realism. I come out of these films positively exhausted. I want to throw up."
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Reported in John Montgomery, The Fifties (London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd., 1965), pp. 214–215
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Gloria Swanson
Gloria Josephine May Swanson (March 27, 1899 - April 4, 1983) was an American actress, producer and businesswoman. She first received notice acting in many silent films in the 1920s and was nominated three times for an Academy Award as Best Actress. She is best remembered for her role in Billy Wilder's film Sunset Boulevard (1950), which also earned her a Golden Globe Award.
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