Sunset Boulevard Quotes

• The cold, mean 'Sunset Boulevard' - a beautiful title, though I suspect it was shot on another boulevard - is further proof of the resurgence of art in the Hollywood of super-craftsmen with insuperable taste.

  Manny Farber

  Beautiful, Art, Sunset

  Manny Farber (2016). “Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings of Manny Faber: A Special Publication of The Library of America”, p.645, Library of America

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• I was actually the one who decided to move to LA. Mom and I were driving on Sunset Boulevard during one of our trips back to see her family, and I said, 'Can we just stay?' So we did.

  Lily Collins

  Mom, Moving, Sunset

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• I've grown to love California: It's the dream of every English musician to come here and work in the sunshine. To walk up Sunset Boulevard, knowing you're going to make music - that's it.

  Noel Gallagher

  Dream, Sunset, Sunshine

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

  Billy Wilder

  Movie, Great Year, Hollywood Films

  Billy Wilder (1999). “Sunset Boulevard”, p.22, Univ of California Press

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• Funny how gentle people get with you once you're dead.

  William Holden

  Death, People, Dying

  "Fictional character: Joe Gillis". "Sunset Boulevard", www.imdb.com. 1950.

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• 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.

  Gloria Swanson

  Dream, Taken, Dark

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• I hate that word. It's return--a return to the millions of people who've never forgiven me for deserting the screen.

  Billy Wilder

  Hate, People, Return

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• Every Friday I used to have about fifty, sixty kids who would wait for me on Sunset Boulevard and I'd take them all to dinner. All runaways.

  Al Lewis

  Friday, Sunset, Kids

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

  Gloria Swanson

  Sunset, Publicity, Euthanasia

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

  Gloria Swanson

  Sunset, August, Hollywood

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• I woke up one morning to find I was famous. I bought a white Rolls-Royce and drove down Sunset Boulevard, wearing dark specs and a white suit, waving like the Queen Mum.

  Peter O'Toole

  Morning, Queens, Sunset

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• There's nothing tragic about being fifty. Not unless you're trying to be twenty-five.

  William Holden

  Trying, Twenties, Fifty

  "Fictional character: Joe Gillis". "Sunset Boulevard", www.imdb.com. 1950.

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• A dozen press agents working overtime can do terrible things to the human spirit.

  Cecil B. DeMille

  Agents, Dozen, Spirit

  "Sunset Boulevard", www.imdb.com. 1950.

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• I remember having my own apartment and a little used white Mustang car and $3000 in the bank, driving down Sunset Boulevard thinking, 'Wow, it doesn't get any better than this!'

  Cheryl Ladd

  Sunset, Thinking, White

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• It's amazing to find that so many people, who I thought really knew me, could have thought that 'Sunset Boulevard' was autobiographical. I've got nobody floating in my swimming pool.

  Gloria Swanson

  Sunset, Swimming, People

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• I have lunch with my friend who works for a theatrical agent and her and I were sitting there eating lunch on Sunset Boulevard and a woman who was a theatrical agent drove by and saw me and jumped out of the car and ran up and handed me her card. I had no idea this happens or would happen and I didn't know what to expect out of it. And my brother said alright you better call her and I said alright, why not? So that's pretty much how we got our first agent and then we started taking acting classes.

  George Stults

  Brother, Sunset, Class

  Source: www.thestarscoop.com

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• I've always been a bit repelled by "Sunset Boulevard", which is wrong about almost everything it touches, whether it's fame, Hollywood, screenwriters, or old ladies. Sunset Boulevard would only make sense to me if it was about John Gilbert and the pool boy.

  William Monahan

  Sunset, Boys, Hollywood

  Source: collider.com

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• I slept in Uday Hussein's bed - that was just so strange. Went to Saddam's palace, was in a mortar attack - crazy stuff. And like three days later you're back in traffic on Sunset Boulevard. It's all kind of behind you, which is kind of perfect for a guy like me because I can take that and turn it into quite the tale.

  Henry Rollins

  Crazy, Sunset, Perfect

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• With my name in cement, I feel actualised. - On cementing his hand prints on Sunset Boulevard

  Nicolas Cage

  Sunset, Hands, Names

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• I drove a bus down Sunset Boulevard once, and I didn't kill anyone.

  Sanjaya Malakar

  Sunset, Bus, Boulevard

  "7 Hairy Questions With Sanjaya". Interview with Houston Chronicle, articles.chicagotribune.com. June 7, 2007.

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• The first time I saw 'Sunset Boulevard' I was probably eight or nine years old, and it really struck me how it's so simply put and elegant, yet there's so much going on.

  Jennifer Lynch

  Sunset, Eight, Years

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• We had individuality. We did as we pleased. We stayed up late. We dressed the way we wanted. I used to whiz down Sunset Boulevard in my open Kissel, with several red chow dogs to match my hair. Today, they're sensible and end up with better health. But we had more fun.

  Clara Bow

  Dog, Fun, Sunset

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Sunset Boulevard' - the story of Hollywood movies draped on a depressing sex affair - is an uncompromising study of American decadence displaying a sad, worn, methodical beauty few films have had since the late twenties.

  Manny Farber

  Depressing, Sex, Sunset

  Manny Farber (2016). “Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings of Manny Faber: A Special Publication of The Library of America”, p.644, Library of America

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• I watch an awful lot of old Hollywood movies - Ill devour anything with Bette Davis or Joan Crawford. My absolute favourite is Sunset Boulevard starring Gloria Swanson.

  Amanda Donohoe

  Sunset, Hollywood, Watches

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