"I think it would have made all the difference. I might have gone on in films. I think of the ones that started out with me, the same place same station - Bette Davis, Ginger Rogers, Olivia de Havilland. I would have liked to have won an Academy Award, to have acted in one or two of the things they've all done. So that part I regret. But I have to think of what went with it, for them, the many marriages, problems with children, career difficulties - I wouldn't trade any of their lives for mine. I'm very blessed, I think. I've had a happy, fulfilled life." a proposito della scelta di ritirarsi dal cinema per deidcarsi alla pittura.

(Gloria Stuart, all'anagrafe Gloria Frances Stewart, attrice e pittrice; Santa Monica, 4 luglio 1910 – Los Angeles, 26 settembre 2010)