Norma Desmond:
I'll be up there again, so help me!
--Gloria Swanson (as Norma Desmond) in Sunset Boulevard
--Gloria Swanson (as Norma Desmond) in Sunset Boulevard
Norma Desmond:
No-one ever leaves a star. That's what makes one a star.
--Gloria Swanson (as Norma Desmond) in Sunset Boulevard
--Gloria Swanson (as Norma Desmond) in Sunset Boulevard
Norma Desmond:
The stars are ageless, aren't they?
--Gloria Swanson (as Norma Desmond) in Sunset Boulevard
--Gloria Swanson (as Norma Desmond) in Sunset Boulevard
Norma Desmond:
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!
--Gloria Swanson (as Norma Desmond) in Sunset Boulevard
--Gloria Swanson (as Norma Desmond) in Sunset Boulevard
Norma Desmond:
They took the idols and smashed them, the Fairbankses, the Gilberts, the Valentinos! And who've we got now? Some nobodies!
--Gloria Swanson (as Norma Desmond) in Sunset Boulevard
--Gloria Swanson (as Norma Desmond) in Sunset Boulevard
Norma Desmond:
We didn't need dialogue. We had faces!
--Gloria Swanson (as Norma Desmond) in Sunset Boulevard
--Gloria Swanson (as Norma Desmond) in Sunset Boulevard
Sadie Thompson:
[screaming at Alfred Davidson] Who gave you the right to pass judgement on me? You psalm-singing louse! You'd tear out you own mother's heart, if she didn't agree with you, and call it saving her soul!
--Gloria Swanson (as ) in Sadie Thompson
--Gloria Swanson (as ) in Sadie Thompson
Theodora Fitzgerald:
[to Lord Bracondale, after he has saved her life twice] Fate seems to send you to me when I most need you, Lord Bracondale.
--Gloria Swanson (as ) in Beyond the Rocks
--Gloria Swanson (as ) in Beyond the Rocks
Theodora Fitzgerald:
I could never live under the shadow of my broken world!
--Gloria Swanson (as ) in Beyond the Rocks
--Gloria Swanson (as ) in Beyond the Rocks
