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

Sunset Boulevard opened in August 1950, and it was pronounced the best movie ever made about Hollywood.

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.

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

Much as I cared for Joseph Kennedy, he was a classic example of that person in the arts with lots of brains and drive but little taste or talent.

The English press treated the world premiere of my first talking picture as a major event.

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