At 26, I felt myself a victim rather than a victor in the realm of pictures.

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.

When I die, my epitaph should read: She Paid the Bills. That's the story of my private life.

As Daddy said, life is 95 percent anticipation.

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.

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

Because I take care of my body, it doesn't look like the body of a woman of my years.