Nobody gets something for nothing.

I didn't want to spend the rest of my life playing Norma Desmond over and over again.

My mother and I could always look out the same window without ever seeing the same thing.

In two months Joseph Kennedy had taken over my entire life, and I trusted him implicitly to make the most of it.

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

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.

I was 25 and the most popular celebrity in the world, with the possible exception of my friend Mary Pickford.