Norma Desmond

"The world will miss me when I'm gone."

"I've learned that all love ends."

"Happiness is for ordinary people."

"I've sacrificed everything for this."

"The pictures made me. They unmade me."

"I am my greatest creation."

"Success is a habit that becomes a prison."

"I've known true adoration. Nothing compares."

"The past is where I truly live."

"I've become my own best audience."

"Silence is the only companion I trust."

"I've learned that betrayal always comes."

"The camera saw my soul. Now it sees nothing."

"I am the tragedy of my own design."

"What is death to someone already forgotten?"

"I've paid dearly for my existence."

"The world wasn't ready to let me go."

"I remain, though the world has moved on."

"Every choice I made led me here."

"I've learned to live with ghosts."

"The real tragedy is being remembered."

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

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

"I don't know how to kiss, or I wouldn't ask someone to demonstrate."

"The dream was always running ahead of me."

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

"I am my own woman. I don't need anyone."

"They don't make faces like mine anymore."

"I remember a time when I was beautiful."

"The world needs me. There's nothing above my work."