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

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

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

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.

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

I was married when I was 17. I knew nothing. I was full of romance.

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