Norma Desmond

"I understand darkness better than most."

"What is life without admiration?"

"I've been alone longer than I was loved."

"The world is full of mediocrity. I was never that."

"My name meant something once. It meant everything."

"I don't live in the past. The past lives in me."

"Rejection is a form of cruelty."

"I've learned that love is always a transaction."

"Beauty fades, but the memory of it endures."

"I know myself better than anyone ever could."

"This house is my monument."

"I cannot be replaced. Impossible."

"Time is the only enemy I've never defeated."

"I've seen the world worship and abandon me."

"Money means nothing when you have nothing else."

"The shadows suit me better now."

"I've practiced being myself for so long."

"A star's duty is to remain eternal."

"I've forgotten what it means to want."

"The pictures don't lie. People do."

"Desperation is just ambition in decline."

"I would rather die than fade away."

"Everything I've done was for immortality."

"I've lived more than most people ever could."

"The stage demands perfection. I was perfection."

"I've never known how to be a bystander."

"Youth abandoned me, but my spirit remains."

"I understand the price of greatness."

"These walls remember my triumph."

"I am not old. I am timeless."