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

I had starred in more than 30 successful films, six in a row directed by Cecil B. De Mille.

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.

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

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

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