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'm in love with beauty and things and people and love and being in love, and those things, I think, on the inside, show on the outside.
Have great, secret, big, fat hopes for yourself.
There's a saying I read recently; I painted it on the fireplace and in my studio: "Be kind to everyone you meet, for everyone is fighting a great battle." We all are. Everyone.
I don't like cold people at all. It makes me feel really insecure.
You must always have great, secret, big fat hopes for yourself in love and in life. The bigger, the better.
The fame you earn has a different taste from the fame that is forced upon you
To be pregnant has been for me each time the supreme joy ... I was doing the greatest thing in the world without having to do anything -- all I had to do was be.
A work of fiction is conceived very much the same way as a dream occurs in the mind of a sleeper.
I like to repaint rooms, to redecorate. My dream would be to have pieds-à-terre in various places.
Some of us are born with a sense of loss. It is not acquired as we grow. It is already there from the beginning, and it pervades us throughout our lives.
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.
I love to decorate and redecorate. Now it's called interior design, but the term decorating is fine with me.
When I was photographed, I didn't feel I was acting. I just felt I was being photographed. It sort of taught me things about myself that I didn't know and was trying to find out.
When anybody says, 'Why me?' Why is 'me' exempt?