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Sunset Boulevard (1950) Movie Quotes: By Norma Desmond
I AM big. It's the PICTURES that got small. ~ Norma Desmond, Sunset Boulevard (1950). They took the idols and smashed them, the Fairbankses, the Gilberts, the Valentinos! And who've we got now? Some nobodies! ~ Norma Desmond, Sunset Boulevard (1950). We didn't need dialogue. We had faces! ~ Norma Desmond, Sunset Boulevard (1950). I hate that word (comeback). It's a return, a return to the millions of people who have never forgiven me for deserting the screen. ~ Norma Desmond, Sunset Boulevard (1950). There once was a time in this business when I had the eyes of the whole world! But that wasn't good enough for them, oh no! They had to have the ears of the whole world too. So they opened their big mouths and out came talk. Talk! TALK! ~ Norma Desmond, Sunset Boulevard (1950). No-one ever leaves a star. That's what makes one a star. ~ Norma Desmond, Sunset Boulevard (1950). I'd like the coffin to be white, and I want it specially lined with satin. White... or pink. Maybe red! Bright flaming red! Let's make it gay! ~ Norma Desmond, Sunset Boulevard (1950). Writing words, words, more words! Well, you'll make a rope of words and strangle this business! With a microphone there to catch the last gurgles, and Technicolor to photograph the red, swollen tongues! ~ Norma Desmond, Sunset Boulevard (1950). The stars are ageless, aren't they? ~ Norma Desmond, Sunset Boulevard (1950). Without me, there wouldn't be any Paramount studio. ~ Norma Desmond, Sunset Boulevard (1950). And I promise you I'll never desert you again because after 'Salome' we'll make another picture and another picture. You see, this is my life! It always will be! Nothing else! Just us, the cameras, and those wonderful people out there in the dark!... All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up. ~ Norma Desmond, Sunset Boulevard (1950). I'll be up there again, so help me! ~ Norma Desmond, Sunset Boulevard (1950). Sunset Boulevard (1950) Movie Quotes: By Joe Gillis Audiences don't know somebody sits down and writes a picture; they think the actors make it up as they go along. ~ Joe Gillis, Sunset Boulevard (1950). Sometimes it's interesting to see just how bad bad writing can be. This promised to go the limit. ~ Joe Gillis, Sunset Boulevard (1950). So they were turning after all, those cameras. Life, which can be strangely merciful, had taken pity on Norma Desmond. The dream she had clung to so desperately had enfolded her. ~ Joe Gillis, Sunset Boulevard (1950). Norma, I can't take it, you've bought me enough. ~ Joe Gillis, Sunset Boulevard (1950). Cut out that "us" business! ~ Joe Gillis, Sunset Boulevard (1950). Has it ever occurred to you that I may have a life of my own? That there may be some girl I'm crazy about? ~ Joe Gillis, Sunset Boulevard (1950). You don't yell at a sleepwalker - he may fall and break his neck. That's it: she was still sleepwalking along the giddy heights of a lost career. ~ Joe Gillis, Sunset Boulevard (1950). Oh, wake up, Norma, you'd be killing yourself to an empty house. The audience left twenty years ago. ~ Joe Gillis, Sunset Boulevard (1950). There's nothing tragic about being 50, not unless you try to be 25. ~ Joe Gillis, Sunset Boulevard (1950). Funny, how gentle people get with you once you're dead. ~ Joe Gillis, Sunset Boulevard (1950). Sunset Boulevard (1950) Movie Quotes: By Other Characters Don't you sometimes hate yourself? ~ Betty Schaefer, Sunset Boulevard (1950). Betty Schaefer: I just think that pictures should say a little something. ~ Betty Schaefer, Sunset Boulevard (1950). Cecil B. DeMille: You know, a dozen press agents working overtime can do terrible things to the human spirit. ~ Betty Schaefer, Sunset Boulevard (1950). She was the greatest of them all. You wouldn't know, you're too young. In one week she received 17,000 fan letters. Men bribed her hairdresser to get a lock of her hair. There was a maharajah who came all the way from India to beg one of her silk stockings. Later he strangled himself with it! ~ Max Von Mayerling, Sunset Boulevard (1950). Madame is the greatest star of them all. ~ Max Von Mayerling, Sunset Boulevard (1950). |