It's amazing to find that so many people, who I thought really knew me, could have thought that 'Sunset Boulevard' was autobiographical. I've got nobody floating in my swimming pool.

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.

Nobody gets anything for nothing.

The only time I ever went hunting I remembered it as a grisly experience.

The first feminine feature that goes, with advancing age, is the neck.

Sam Wood, the director, made most of his money as a real estate agent; there was nothing of the temperamental artist about him.

The day I initiated divorce proceedings against Michael Farmer, I was ready to retire to a desert cave and rethink my life.