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

I consider anybody who weighs over 200 pounds fat, and time was when I could not refrain from telling such people so.

I was the first celebrity in pictures to be marrying a titled European.

After 16 years in pictures I could not be intimidated easily, because I knew where all the skeletons were buried.

In two months Joseph Kennedy had taken over my entire life, and I trusted him implicitly to make the most of it.

Sam Wood, the director, made most of his money as a real estate agent; there was nothing of the temperamental artist about him.

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