If you're 40 years old and you've never had a failure, you've been deprived.
Nobody gets something for nothing.
Life and death. They are somehow sweetly and beautifully mixed, but I don't know how.
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 was the first celebrity in pictures to be marrying a titled European.
Sam Wood, the director, made most of his money as a real estate agent; there was nothing of the temperamental artist about him.