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.

It's amazing to find that so many people, who I thought really knew me, could have thought that 'Sunset Boulevard' was autobiographical. I've got nobody floating in my swimming pool.

Because I take care of my body, it doesn't look like the body of a woman of my years.

I feel sure that unborn babies pick their parents.

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

Nobody gets anything for nothing.

When I die, my epitaph should read: She Paid the Bills. That's the story of my private life.