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"The poor dope...
He always wanted a pool." - Joe
"Nobody important really...
Just a movie writer with a couple of B pictures to his credit" - Joe
"If I lose my car it's like...
having my legs cut off"
"He was a smart producer,...
with a set of ulcers to prove it" - Joe
"I just think pictures should...
say a little something" - Betty
"It was like that woman in...
great expectations" - Joe
"Apparently I just didn't have...
what it takes" - Joe
"I am big...
it's the pictures that got small." - Norma
"Wait a minute haven't...
I seen you ...." - Joe
"I hate that word (comeback)...
it's a return." - Norma
"Sometimes it's interesting to see just...
how bad, bad writing can be." - Joe
"The whole place seems to have been stricken with a paralysis,...
out of beat with the rest of the world" - Joe
"And of course she had a pool,...
who didn't then?" - Joe
"Was her life really as...
empty as that?" - Joe
"The plain fact was that she was afraid of...
that world outside. Afraid it would remind her that time had passed" - Joe
"It wasn't so simple getting some
coherence into that wild scrambled melodrama of hers." - Joe
"You don't yell at...
a sleep walker" - Joe
"We didn't need dialogue, ...
we had faces" - Norma
"They were always her pictures, that's...
all she wanted to see" - Joe
"Dim figures you might still remember...
from the silent days" - Joen
"As long as the lady is paying for it why not...
take the Vicuna" - Salesman
"She has moments of...
melancholy" - Max
"The perfect setting for a...
silent movie queen" - Joe on Norma's bedroom
"I felt caught like that cigarette in...
the prongs of that contraption on her finger" - Joe
"Has it ever occurred that...
I may have a life of my own?" - Joe
"Great stars have...
great pride" - Norma
"To fall in love with you, that...
was the idiotic thing" - Norma
"As a fact I have...
given up writing all together" - Joe
"DeMille always said I was...
his greatest star" - Norma
"I've waited twenty years for this call. DeMille can...
wait until I'm good and ready"
"Without me there wouldn't be...
any Paramount Studios" - Norma
"Norma Desmond, she must be...
a million years old" - First Assistance
"I hear she was a terror to...
work with." - First Assistant
"Thirty million fans have given her...
the brush. Isn't that enough?"
"A dozen press agents working overtime can do...
terrible things to the human spirit" - DeMille
"Hog-Eye turn that light back...
where it belongs" - DeMille
"I don't care about the money I...
just want to work again" - Norma to DeMille
"An army of beauty experts...
invaded her house" - Joe to the audience
"Ready for those cameras that...
would never turn" - Joe
"That story of mine Betty Schaefer had dug up...
kept going through my head like a dozen locomotives" - Joe
"All cardboard, all hollow, all phony...
all filled with mirrors. I like it better than any street in the world." - Betty
"We're not helping her any, feeding...
her lies and more lies" - Joe
"I made her...
a star. And I cannot let her be destroyed" - Max
"What’s wrong with being on the
other side of the cameras? It's really more fun" - Betty
"Madame is the greatest...
star of them all" - Max
"There's nothing tragic about being...
fifty, not unless you're trying to be twenty five" - Joe
"No one ever leaves a...
star, that's what makes one a star" - Norma
"Funny how gentle people get...
with you once you're dead" - Joe
"Life which can be strangely...
merciful, had taken pity on Norma Desmond" - Joe
"The dream that she had clung to so...
desperately had unfolded her" - Joe
"Just us and the cameras and those
people out there in the dark" - Norma
"I'm ready for my...
closeup." - Norma
"You've made a rope of words and...
strangled this business!" - Norma
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