I had starred in more than 30 successful films, six in a row directed by Cecil B. De Mille.

I became a fanatic about healthy food in 1944.

So they were turning, after all - those cameras. Life, which can be strangely merciful, had taken pity on Norma Desmond. The dream she had clung to so desperately had enfolded her. Norma: You see, this is my life. It always will be! (In a whisper) There's nothing else - just us - and the cameras - and those wonderful people out there in the dark. All right, Mr. De Mille, I'm ready for my close-up.

After 16 years in pictures I could not be intimidated easily, because I knew where all the skeletons were buried.

Writing the story of your own life is a bit like drilling your own teeth.

In a theater you can fool everyone past the tenth row if you're good, but on the screen you can't really fool anyone for a second.

Key West for me was a tropical island paradise.