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Never say never, for if you live long enough, chances are you will not be able to abide by the simplest of such injunctions.
Sam Wood, the director, made most of his money as a real estate agent; there was nothing of the temperamental artist about him.
In a theater you can fool everyone past the tenth row if you're good, but on the screen you can't really fool anyone for a second.
Never say never Never is a long, undependable time, and life is too full of rich possibilities to have restrictions placed upon it.
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.
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.
It's amazing to find that so many people, who I thought really knew me, could have thought that 'Sunset Boulevard' was autobiographical. I've got nobody floating in my swimming pool.
I have gone through a long apprenticeship. I have gone through enough of being a nobody. I have decided that when I am a star, I will be every inch and every moment the star! Everybody from the studio gateman to the highest executive will know it.
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. Norma: You see, this is my life. It always will be! (In a whisper) There's nothing else - just us - and the cameras - and those wonderful people out there in the dark. All right, Mr. De Mille, I'm ready for my close-up.