Actress

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

When I die, my epitaph should read: She Paid the Bills. That's the story of my private life.

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

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

I was the first celebrity in pictures to be marrying a titled European.

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

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

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

Your body is the direct result of what you eat as well as what you don't eat.

From the first moment on the set I was consumed with curiousity about the technical side of shooting a sound picture.

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

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