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

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

Nobody gets something for nothing.

Nobody gets anything for nothing.

I always anticipated difficulties in order to avoid scenes.

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

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