If you're 40 years old and you've never had a failure, you've been deprived.

The major gossip columnists were more concerned with protecting the industry than with gunning down sinners.

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.

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

I consider anybody who weighs over 200 pounds fat, and time was when I could not refrain from telling such people so.

Never say never, for if you live long enough, chances are you will not be able to abide by the simplest of such injunctions.

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