Because I take care of my body, it doesn't look like the body of a woman of my years.

Fame was thrilling only until it became grueling. Money was fun only until you ran out of things to buy.

The fuss that actors began making about the difficulty of shifting to sound struck me as perfectly foolish.

I entered the cosmetics industry because I wanted more women to use cosmetics made with safe, healthful ingredients.

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

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.

So they were turning, after all - those cameras. Life, which can be strangely merciful, had taken pity on Norma Desmond. The dream she had clung to so desperately had enfolded her. Norma: You see, this is my life. It always will be! (In a whisper) There's nothing else - just us - and the cameras - and those wonderful people out there in the dark. All right, Mr. De Mille, I'm ready for my close-up.