Airport 1975 (1974)

Gloria Swanson: Famous Actress Gloria Swanson

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• Bill : This thing will never get off the ground. Never fly. Take my word for it.

  Gloria Swanson : Young man, you think this thing will not fly? In 1917 I was flying in something wilder than this. Do you know who the pilot was?

  Bill : Wiley Post?

  Gloria Swanson : [Chuckles]  No. Cecil B. De Mille and we flew from Hollywood nonstop to Pasadena. Yes, and on the way home we did loop the loops so I could see the moon upside down.

• Gloria Swanson : The mountains - we're so close!

• Gloria Swanson : I guess everyone had given up hope including the Doctors. Nobody expected me to live, but then I've never done anything I was expected to do.

• Gloria Swanson : Do you know that my first trip to California took five days? So if we have to spend a weekend in Salt Lake, we're still ahead!

• [securing items in her bomb-proof case] 

  Gloria Swanson : To hell with the jewelry, let's put my book in here!

• Gloria Swanson : Oh. My jewel case. It's bomb proofed, the insurance people insisted upon it. Oh. My idea of heaven is never to have to pack or unpack. Why didn't I think of that before. Here. Here. You know what? The hell with the jewelry let's put my book in here. Thank you. Here you are my darlings, it's all yours - I never wanted to have the damn thing published when I was alive anyway.

• [in reference to Janice Abbott arriving on the stretcher] 

  Gloria Swanson : Oh how bless I am, three children, seven grandchildren and all healthy thank God!

• Gloria Swanson : ...my life's a surprise, one surprise after another.

  Mr. Kelly : You look lovely Miss Swanson.

  Gloria Swanson : Thank you Mr Kelly. Imagine getting gussied up like this to watch a lot of Supreme Court judges chew.

• Winnie : Oh, it's so beautiful!

  Gloria Swanson : Every morning is beautiful, you're just too young to know!

• [Recalling her days being a rebel with other actresses against studio pressure in Hollywood, while on the plane] 

  Gloria Swanson : That's easy, Carole Lombard and Grace Moore, I was a rebel too.

• Gary : Would you hold this please, I'll take care of Miss Swanson. Good Evening, right this way please.

  Gloria Swanson : Thank you.

  Nancy Pryor : Good Evening Miss Swanson.

  Gloria Swanson : Good Evening. I mean, good morning!

  Gary : Right here, Miss Swanson.

  Gloria Swanson : [In reference to her bomb proof case]  Oh yes, put it under my feet. Thank you very much.

  Gary : It's a pleasure to have with us, Miss Swanson. If there;s anything I can do for you, just let me know.

  Gloria Swanson : I shall.

  Sister Beatrice : Never mind her Sister, put your ticket away.

  Sister Ruth : Yes sister.

• Nancy Pryor : Miss Swanson, would you like something from the bar?

  Gloria Swanson : No I have my own, tea.

  Nancy Pryor : Miss Griffith?

  Winnie : Yes a Martini please.