Norma Desmond quotes

View Quote No one leaves a star. That's what makes one a star.

View Quote We didn't need dialogue. We had faces!

View Quote 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!

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

View Quote The stars are ageless, aren't they?

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

View Quote 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.

View Quote Note: bolded portion is ranked #7 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.