I am a very pragmatic person.

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

Nobody gets anything for nothing.

I was 25 and the most popular celebrity in the world, with the possible exception of my friend Mary Pickford.

My mother and I could always look out the same window without ever seeing the same thing.

The Paramount executives were so pleased with Sunset Boulevard that they asked me to do a publicity tour.

I was married when I was 17. I knew nothing. I was full of romance.