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.

The first feminine feature that goes, with advancing age, is the neck.

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

My sculpture is very personal; for years my subjects were family and close, close friends.

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

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

Nobody gets something for nothing.