Sunset Boulevard

Movie · 3 characters · 1123 quotes

Quotes from Sunset Boulevard

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"We're all pretty much the same, just trying to survive in this town."
Joe Gillis Life
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"You know, the funny thing about show business is that nobody really wants to hear the truth."
Joe Gillis Truth
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"I'm writing a screenplay about a woman who shoots a man who's trying to leave her. It practically writes itself."
Joe Gillis Creativity
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"The real tragedy is being remembered."
Norma Desmond
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"I've learned to live with ghosts."
Norma Desmond Solitude
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"Every choice I made led me here."
Norma Desmond
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"I remain, though the world has moved on."
Norma Desmond Perseverance
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"The world wasn't ready to let me go."
Norma Desmond Power
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"I've paid dearly for my existence."
Norma Desmond Wisdom
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"What is death to someone already forgotten?"
Norma Desmond Death
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"I am the tragedy of my own design."
Norma Desmond
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"The camera saw my soul. Now it sees nothing."
Norma Desmond Art
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"I've learned that betrayal always comes."
Norma Desmond Truth
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"Silence is the only companion I trust."
Norma Desmond Peace
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"I've become my own best audience."
Norma Desmond Creativity
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"The past is where I truly live."
Norma Desmond Solitude
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"I've known true adoration. Nothing compares."
Norma Desmond Relationships
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"Success is a habit that becomes a prison."
Norma Desmond Success
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"I am my greatest creation."
Norma Desmond Creativity
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"The pictures made me. They unmade me."
Norma Desmond Art
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"I've sacrificed everything for this."
Norma Desmond Power
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"Happiness is for ordinary people."
Norma Desmond Happiness
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"I've learned that all love ends."
Norma Desmond Love
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"The world will miss me when I'm gone."
Norma Desmond
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"I am not old. I am timeless."
Norma Desmond Beauty
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"These walls remember my triumph."
Norma Desmond History
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"I understand the price of greatness."
Norma Desmond Wisdom
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"Youth abandoned me, but my spirit remains."
Norma Desmond Perseverance
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"I've never known how to be a bystander."
Norma Desmond Strength
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"The stage demands perfection. I was perfection."
Norma Desmond Art