Sunset Boulevard

"You can't help but admire my work."

"I am the greatest star of them all."

"Youth is wasted on the young."

"In my day, we knew how to make pictures."

"I am essential. I always have been."

"The camera loved me then, and it will love me again."

"I've been afraid of the light for far too long."

"They took my life and turned it into entertainment."

"I never leave this house. I have everything I need right here."

"This is my house. I make the rules here."

"I keep my beauty secret. I don't go out in the sun."

"The beauty of youth fades, but the beauty of talent endures."

"Without me, there would have been no Paramount."

"You don't know how it was then. You couldn't know."

"I spent a million on the place, not counting the swimming pool."

"A producer's nothing without a name."

"They don't make stars like they used to."

"One woman's sunset is another woman's dawn."

"I made more than fifty films. I was a big star."

"I suppose you think I'm mad."

"The public wanted me to be a certain way, and so I became that way."

"Those early days were paradise."

"I've been waiting for you a long time. A long time."

"The past can hurt, but you can run from it or learn from it."

"Life's too short to be living somebody else's dream."

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

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

"The dream was always stronger than the life."

"I don't go out much anymore. I just sit in my room and watch the old pictures."

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