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" The day I initiated divorce proceedings against Michael Farmer, I was ready to retire to a desert cave and rethink my life. "

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" The Paramount executives were so pleased with Sunset Boulevard that they asked me to do a publicity tour. "

" One of the networks sent me a TV set to watch. I didn't care for the medium. It depressed me. "

" I had starred in more than 30 successful films, six in a row directed by Cecil B. De Mille. "

" We lived on the Key West Army Base. Key West for me was a tropical island paradise. "

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" Sam Wood, the director, made most of his money as a real estate agent; there was nothing of the temperamental artist about him. "

" Your body is the direct result of what you eat as well as what you don't eat. "

" I am a very pragmatic person. "

" There was no place at all for me in my father's military world. "

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" By the time I was 15, my mother had turned me into a real clotheshorse. "

" Sunset Boulevard opened in August 1950, and it was pronounced the best movie ever made about Hollywood. "

" Because I take care of my body, it doesn't look like the body of a woman of my years. "

" Fame was thrilling only until it became grueling. Money was fun only until you ran out of things to buy. "

" I doubted that there were Communists hiding behind every corporation desk and director's chair. "

" I am big. It's the pictures that got small. "

" Much as I cared for Joseph Kennedy, he was a classic example of that person in the arts with lots of brains and drive but little taste or talent. "

" I feel sure that unborn babies pick their parents. "

" My greatest debt will always be to the movie-going public of yesterday and today, without whose love and devotion I would have had no story to tell. "

" At 26 I felt myself a victim rather than a victor in the realm of pictures. "

" The Sennett system of making pictures was actually fun. You never knew what the person next to you was going to do. "

" The major gossip columnists were more concerned with protecting the industry than with gunning down sinners. "

" From the first moment on the set I was consumed with curiousity about the technical side of shooting a sound picture. "

" I became a fanatic about healthy food in 1944. "

" All they had to do was put my name on a marquee and watch the money roll in. "

" I was married when I was 17. I knew nothing. I was full of romance. "

" I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book. "

" I consider anybody who weighs over 200 pounds fat, and time was when I could not refrain from telling such people so. "