Norma Desmond

"There's always tomorrow for a comeback."

"I won't be forgotten. Legends never are."

"The camera loved me. It always loved me."

"I gave them art. They gave me silence."

"Love is the most dangerous thing on earth."

"I've learned that wanting isn't having."

"This house is my kingdom, and I'm queen."

"The past is never past. It's always present."

"I could teach them all a thing or two about acting."

"Loyalty is a rare and precious thing."

"The best revenge is living well."

"I don't ask for much. Just devotion."

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

"I don't go out very much anymore. I just sit in my room and think of those wonderful afternoons when we all went to the Coliseum."

"No one ever leaves a star. That's what makes one a star."

"I've been waiting for you. I've been the living ghost haunting these halls."

"You're still in the big house. But you're forgetting that I'm still a big house."

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

"The pictures have a way of staying with you, don't they?"

"I am a woman of the world."

"Without me, life would have been unbearable."

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

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

"I used to be a great woman. I was somebody once, you know."

"The stars have faded, but I remain."

"What's that smell? The kind they don't make anymore."

"I've been waiting for someone like you. Someone who understands."

"Do you know what it means to be a has-been before you're forty?"

"I am not broke, I am merely between fortunes."

"Youth is something I've lost. Hollywood took it from me."