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

It's amazing to find that so many people, who I thought really knew me, could have thought that 'Sunset Boulevard' was autobiographical. I've got nobody floating in my swimming pool.

My sculpture is very personal; for years my subjects were family and close, close friends.

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

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

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

I was 25 and the most popular celebrity in the world, with the possible exception of my friend Mary Pickford.