I am big. It's the pictures that got small.

In a theater you can fool everyone past the tenth row if you’re good, but on the screen you can’t really fool anyone for a second.

I doubted that there were Communists hiding behind every corporation desk and director’s chair.

I didn’t want to spend the rest of my life playing Norma Desmond over and over again.

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.

There was no place at all for me in my father’s military world.

One of the networks sent me a TV set to watch. I didn’t care for the medium. It depressed me.

I’ve given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can’t divorce a book.

Because I take care of my body, it doesn’t look like the body of a woman of my years.

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