I am a very pragmatic person.

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.

I think all this talk about age is foolish. Every time I'm one year older, everyone else is too.

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

Never say never Never is a long, undependable time, and life is too full of rich possibilities to have restrictions placed upon it.

From the first moment on the set I was consumed with curiousity about the technical side of shooting a sound picture.

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