I enjoy going to Palm Springs when I'm living in Los Angeles.
I had starred in more than 30 successful films, six in a row directed by Cecil B. De Mille.
Never say never Never is a long, undependable time, and life is too full of rich possibilities to have restrictions placed upon it.
Never say never, for if you live long enough, chances are you will not be able to abide by the simplest of such injunctions.
After 16 years in pictures I could not be intimidated easily, because I knew where all the skeletons were buried.
Fame was thrilling only until it became grueling. Money was fun only until you ran out of things to buy.
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.
Meditation requires courage. It requires the basic integrity, sincerity, respect towards your own being. At least don't deceive yourself.
If all alms were given only from pity, all beggars would have starved long ago.
I always say you need something weird on your face and some good shoes and nobody looks in the middle.
I find it very hard to believe that people would prefer an awkward picture with me than a normal conversation.