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 am a very pragmatic person.

If you're 40 years old and you've never had a failure, you've been deprived.

As Daddy said, life is 95 percent anticipation.

Never say never Never is a long, undependable time, and life is too full of rich possibilities to have restrictions placed upon it.

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

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