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

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

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

I was the first celebrity in pictures to be marrying a titled European.

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

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

So they were turning, after all - those cameras. Life, which can be strangely merciful, had taken pity on Norma Desmond. The dream she had clung to so desperately had enfolded her. Norma: You see, this is my life. It always will be! (In a whisper) There's nothing else - just us - and the cameras - and those wonderful people out there in the dark. All right, Mr. De Mille, I'm ready for my close-up.