Quotes by Gloria Vanderbilt

About Gloria Vanderbilt:

Gloria Laura Vanderbilt is an American artist, author, actress, heiress and socialite, noted as an early developer of designer blue jeans. She is a member of the Vanderbilt family of New York and the mother of CNN television anchor Anderson Cooper.
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I can't bear to look at Paris Hilton and all that. I mean, it really doesn't grab me. I don't think she's interesting, and the sense of values seems sort of off-kilter.

Gloria Vanderbilt

I don't like cold people at all. It makes me feel really insecure.

Gloria Vanderbilt

The heart of another is a dark forest.

Gloria Vanderbilt

In anything there has to be dark and light. There's a lot of joy in my paintings and a lot of darkness.

Gloria Vanderbilt

The only thing that would ever embarrass me would be something I would write that would be badly written.

Gloria Vanderbilt

I've had many, many loves. I always feel that something wonderful is going to happen. And it always does.

Gloria Vanderbilt

I don't read anything about myself. As a child, there was something in me that was just instinctive. I want to be clear in my spirit, and I don't want to be blocked by things that get inside of you and kill you.

Gloria Vanderbilt

In mythology and palmistry, the left hand is called the dreamer because the ring finger on the left hand leads directly to the heart. I find it a very poetic idea. And that's why I only wear nail polish on my left ring finger.

Gloria Vanderbilt

Many times, working is kind of like channeling, and I really don't know what's going to fall on the page. I just did this image of a fat girl and put her on a tiny mountain peak of grass that she's walking over. It just amused me.

Gloria Vanderbilt

If you don't have a father, you don't miss it, because you don't know what it is. It was really only when I married Wyatt Cooper that I understood what it was like to have a father, because he was just an extraordinary father.

Gloria Vanderbilt

I lived in Europe until I was 9, really.

Gloria Vanderbilt

I don't categorize myself as an 85-year-old woman who has written an erotic novel. I categorize myself as a writer who's written an erotic novel.

Gloria Vanderbilt

To be happy--one must find one's bliss

Gloria Vanderbilt

I've been really very fortunate with the men I've been involved with. They've always really treated me very, very wonderfully. And whenever anything broke up, I was always the one to leave. So I think I've been really very, very lucky.

Gloria Vanderbilt

I believe in marriage and fidelity.

Gloria Vanderbilt

A work of fiction is conceived very much the same way as a dream occurs in the mind of a sleeper.

Gloria Vanderbilt

Author Bio

  • NameGloria Vanderbilt
  • DescriptionAmerican businesswoman, fashion designer, socialite and writer
  • BornFebruary 20, 1924
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionActor; Novelist; Writer; Autobiographer; Painter; Businessperson