I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book.

I didn't want to spend the rest of my life playing Norma Desmond over and over again.

The only time I ever went hunting I remembered it as a grisly experience.

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.

Never say never Never is a long, undependable time, and life is too full of rich possibilities to have restrictions placed upon it.

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

I always anticipated difficulties in order to avoid scenes.