I think all this talk about age is foolish. Every time I'm one year older, everyone else is too.

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

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.

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.

Sam Wood, the director, made most of his money as a real estate agent; there was nothing of the temperamental artist about him.

I consider anybody who weighs over 200 pounds fat, and time was when I could not refrain from telling such people so.