Gloria Vanderbilt
Gloria Vanderbilt
Gloria Laura Vanderbiltis an American artist, author, actress, heiress, and socialite. During the 1930s, she was the subject of a high-profile child custody trial in which her mother, Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt, and her paternal aunt, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, both sought custody of the child Gloria and control over her $5 million trust fund. The trial, called the "trial of the century" by the press, was the subject of wide, sensational press coverage due to the wealth and notoriety of the...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth20 February 1924
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
I like to repaint rooms, to redecorate. My dream would be to have pieds-à-terre in various places.
A home is very, very important to me. But I do change things around a lot.
Even death is wonderful because, as Woody Allen says, we're not going to know when it happens.
I believe in marriage and fidelity.
I don't think age has anything to do with what you write about.
In anything there has to be dark and light. There's a lot of joy in my paintings and a lot of darkness.
The heart of another is a dark forest.
Why not me? Suffering, she understood, is, in fact, random, universal.
Everything in life is elusive.
A work of fiction is conceived very much the same way as a dream occurs in the mind of a sleeper.
Sinatra created a kind of magic. You want those people to be part of your life.
When anybody says, 'Why me?' Why is 'me' exempt?
And it came to me, and I knew what I had to have before my soul would rest. I wanted to belong - to belong to my mother. And in return - I wanted my mother to belong to me.
When I started travelling, I would go to a city and be on television and I used to get the question, 'Why do you work? If I were you, I'd just go and lie on a beach somewhere.' And I'd answer, 'Well, I wanted to make something of my life.