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My mother and I could always look out the same window without ever seeing the same thing.

One of the networks sent me a TV set to watch. I didn't care for the medium. It depressed me.

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As Daddy said, life is 95 percent anticipation.

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The Sennett system of making pictures was actually fun. You never knew what the person next to you was going to do.

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All they had to do was put my name on a marquee and watch the money roll in.

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If you're 40 years old and you've never had a failure, you've been deprived.

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The English press treated the world premiere of my first talking picture as a major event.

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I had starred in more than 30 successful films, six in a row directed by Cecil B. De Mille.

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I was married when I was 17. I knew nothing. I was full of romance.

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Sam Wood, the director, made most of his money as a real estate agent; there was nothing of the temperamental artist about him.

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Fame was thrilling only until it became grueling. Money was fun only until you ran out of things to buy.

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My mother and I could always look out the same window without ever seeing the same thing.

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My greatest debt will always be to the movie-going public of yesterday and today, without whose love and devotion I would have had no story to tell.

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Tennessee Williams was a gifted talker with a beautiful accent and we had lots of things in common.

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I feel sure that unborn babies pick their parents.

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The major gossip columnists were more concerned with protecting the industry than with gunning down sinners.

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Much as I cared for Joseph Kennedy, he was a classic example of that person in the arts with lots of brains and drive but little taste or talent.

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Sunset Boulevard opened in August 1950, and it was pronounced the best movie ever made about Hollywood.

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The day I initiated divorce proceedings against Michael Farmer, I was ready to retire to a desert cave and rethink my life.

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I consider anybody who weighs over 200 pounds fat, and time was when I could not refrain from telling such people so.

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Because I take care of my body, it doesn't look like the body of a woman of my years.

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The fuss that actors began making about the difficulty of shifting to sound struck me as perfectly foolish.

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Writing the story of your own life is a bit like drilling your own teeth.

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I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book.

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The first feminine feature that goes, with advancing age, is the neck.

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All creative people should be required to leave California for three months every year.

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The only time I ever went hunting I remembered it as a grisly experience.

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Life and death. They are somehow sweetly and beautifully mixed, but I don't know how.

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I doubted that there were Communists hiding behind every corporation desk and director's chair.

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I entered the cosmetics industry because I wanted more women to use cosmetics made with safe, healthful ingredients.

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By the time I was 15, my mother had turned me into a real clotheshorse.

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I always anticipated difficulties in order to avoid scenes.

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Nobody gets anything for nothing.

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In two months Joseph Kennedy had taken over my entire life, and I trusted him implicitly to make the most of it.

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I am big. It's the pictures that got small.

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I didn't want to spend the rest of my life playing Norma Desmond over and over again.

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At 26 I felt myself a victim rather than a victor in the realm of pictures.

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