The Paramount executives were so pleased with Sunset Boulevard that they asked me to do a publicity tour.

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

Life and death. They are somehow sweetly and beautifully mixed, but I don't know how.

All they had to do was put my name on a marquee and watch the money roll in.

The day I initiated divorce proceedings against Michael Farmer, I was ready to retire to a desert cave and rethink my life.

The English press treated the world premiere of my first talking picture as a major event.

Never say never, for if you live long enough, chances are you will not be able to abide by the simplest of such injunctions.