Fame was thrilling only until it became grueling. Money was fun only until you ran out of things to buy.

The fuss that actors began making about the difficulty of shifting to sound struck me as perfectly foolish.

Sunset Boulevard opened in August 1950, and it was pronounced the best movie ever made about Hollywood.

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.

Hollywood's old trick: repeat a successful formula until it dies.

The major gossip columnists were more concerned with protecting the industry than with gunning down sinners.

The first feminine feature that goes, with advancing age, is the neck.