Sunset Boulevard

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

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

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

"Without me, life would have been unbearable."

"I am a woman of the world."

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

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

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

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

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

"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."

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

"I understand that my life has been lived in service to another's vision. I do not regret it."

"The cinema is a dream factory. Some of us merely tend the machinery."

"I have learned that the world respects those who know their place and honor it."

"Hope is what we cling to when everything else has abandoned us."

"I believe that some people are born to lead and others to support. Both are necessary."

"To truly understand someone, you must first understand their secrets."

"In the end, we are all merely supporting players in someone else's dream."

"I do not fear irrelevance because I have never sought relevance."

"The strongest people are those who serve without seeking recognition."

"I have found that gratitude makes even the humblest life bearable."

"Politics, like cinema, is built on the willing suspension of disbelief."

"I believe that order is not oppressive; it is liberating."

"The greatest education is learning to see yourself clearly and without self-deception."

"Nature is indifferent to our struggles. There is a certain peace in that."

"I have learned that true freedom comes from accepting our limitations."

"Family is what we create through loyalty, not what we are born into."

"I do not believe in luck. I believe in preparation and acceptance."

"Inspiration comes to those patient enough to wait for it."