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

One of the networks sent me a TV set to watch. I didn't care for the medium. It depressed me.

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.

As Daddy said, life is 95 percent anticipation.

Writing the story of your own life is a bit like drilling your own teeth.

After 16 years in pictures I could not be intimidated easily, because I knew where all the skeletons were buried.

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