By the time I was 15, my mother had turned me into a real clotheshorse.

The English press treated the world premiere of my first talking picture as a major event.

I am a very pragmatic person.

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

I have gone through a long apprenticeship. I have gone through enough of being a nobody. I have decided that when I am a star, I will be every inch and every moment the star! Everybody from the studio gateman to the highest executive will know it.

The Paramount executives were so pleased with Sunset Boulevard that they asked me to do a publicity tour.

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