Key West for me was a tropical island paradise.

I had starred in more than 30 successful films, six in a row directed by Cecil B. De Mille.

The Sennett system of making pictures was actually fun. You never knew what the person next to you was going to do.

Fame was thrilling only until it became grueling. Money was fun only until you ran out of things to buy.

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 became a fanatic about healthy food in 1944.

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