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

If you're 40 years old and you've never had a failure, you've been deprived.

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

The Sennett system of making pictures was actually fun. You never knew what the person next to you was going to do.

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

When I die, my epitaph should read: She Paid the Bills. That's the story of my private life.

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