Sunset Boulevard

"The past is not truly past if you refuse to let it go."

"One must maintain standards, even when the world forgets what they are."

"Love in this town is a commodity, like everything else. It can be bought, sold, or discarded."

"I have seen empires built and watched them crumble. I remain constant."

"Time moves differently for those who have known greatness. For them, it stands still."

"A butler is more than a servant; he is the keeper of order and dignity in a crumbling world."

"In this business, you learn to appreciate the finer things—silence, solitude, and the company of those who understand."

"Without me, there would be no Norma Desmond. I made her a star."

"The dream has always been the same. A glamorous life, adoration, eternal youth."

"I am still in pictures. My pictures have been running in steady projection all around the world, and not once has that important man in his private research work stopped finding an answer to the question about me."

"Hollywood is a disease. I should have refused the cure."

"I can see it all clearly now. It's too late to see clearly now."

"The only thing worse than failure here is success."

"I was a fool to think I could beat the system."

"Nobody here wants the truth. They want comfortable lies."

"Every morning you tell yourself today's the day you leave."

"You don't realize you're drowning until your head goes under."

"I wasn't brave enough to be a real writer."

"The price of admission to this town is your integrity."

"I wanted to matter, to create something real. Instead, I created garbage."

"Everything here is plastic, including the people."

"I should have walked away when I still had my soul."

"The real horror of this town is how normal it becomes."

"I was just trying to survive. That's no excuse."

"In the end, the pool is always waiting."

"I made a deal with the devil and thought I was clever."

"The machine doesn't care about your dreams or your talent."

"I was talented once. Pride destroyed it."

"You come here with great hopes and leave with nothing."

"She loved me, but I was incapable of loving her back."