Norma Desmond

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

"Without me, there wouldn't be any Paramount pictures."

"I don't go out much anymore. I just sit in my room and watch the old pictures."

"The dream was always stronger than the life."

"I'm ready for my close-up, Mr. DeMille."

"We didn't need dialogue. We had faces."

"Life's too short to be living somebody else's dream."

"The past can hurt, but you can run from it or learn from it."

"I've been waiting for you a long time. A long time."

"Those early days were paradise."

"The public wanted me to be a certain way, and so I became that way."

"I suppose you think I'm mad."

"I made more than fifty films. I was a big star."

"One woman's sunset is another woman's dawn."

"They don't make stars like they used to."

"A producer's nothing without a name."

"I spent a million on the place, not counting the swimming pool."

"You don't know how it was then. You couldn't know."

"Without me, there would have been no Paramount."

"The beauty of youth fades, but the beauty of talent endures."

"I keep my beauty secret. I don't go out in the sun."

"This is my house. I make the rules here."

"I never leave this house. I have everything I need right here."

"They took my life and turned it into entertainment."

"I've been afraid of the light for far too long."

"The camera loved me then, and it will love me again."

"I am essential. I always have been."

"In my day, we knew how to make pictures."

"Youth is wasted on the young."

"I am the greatest star of them all."