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

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

I am a very pragmatic person.

As Daddy said, life is 95 percent anticipation.

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

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

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