Sunset Boulevard (film)

"No one leaves a star. That's what makes one a star."

"We didn't need dialogue. We had faces!"

"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!"

"They took the idols and smashed them, the Fairbankses, the Gilberts, the Valentinos! And who've we got now? Some nobodies!"

"The stars are ageless, aren't they?"

"Without me, there wouldn't be any Paramount studio."

"I just want to tell you all how happy I am to be back in the studio, making a picture again! You don't know how much I've missed all of you. 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! There's 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."

"Gloria Swanson - Norma Desmond"

"William Holden - Joe Gillis"

"Erich von Stroheim - Max von Mayerling"

"Nancy Olson - Betty Schaefer"