Sunset Boulevard

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

"Everything I've done was for immortality."

"I would rather die than fade away."

"Desperation is just ambition in decline."

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

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

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

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

"The shadows suit me better now."

"Money means nothing when you have nothing else."

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

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

"I cannot be replaced. Impossible."

"This house is my monument."

"I know myself better than anyone ever could."

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

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

"Rejection is a form of cruelty."

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

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

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

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

"What is life without admiration?"

"I understand darkness better than most."

"The footlights have dimmed, but I remain luminous."

"I am not a ghost. I am presence itself."

"These jewels are the only honest things in my life."

"I've forgotten how to be ordinary."

"My life was never my own. It belonged to the screen."

"Once you've been a star, darkness is unbearable."