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

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

My mother and I could always look out the same window without ever seeing the same thing.

In a theater you can fool everyone past the tenth row if you're good, but on the screen you can't really fool anyone for a second.

As Daddy said, life is 95 percent anticipation.

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.

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