Sunset Boulevard Flashcards
“I am big!…
…It’s the pictures that got small.”
- Norma Desmond
“All right, Mr DeMille,…
…I’m ready for my close-up.”
- Norma Desmond
“This whole place seemed to have been stricken with a kind of…
…Creeping paralysis - out of beat with the rest of the world, crumbling apart of the world, crumbling apart in slow motion.”
- Joe Gillis
“You don’t yell at a sleepwalker-…
…he may fall and break his neck. That’s it: She was still sleepwalking along the giddy heights of a lost career”
- Joe Gillis
Betty Schaefer: “Don’t you sometimes hate yourself?”
Joe Gillis: “Constantly”
“The poor dope-…
…he always wanted a pool. Well, in the end, he got himself a pool”
- Joe Gillis
“We didn’t need dialogue…
…we had faces”
- Norma Desmond
“Theres nothing tragic about…
…Being fifty. Not unless you’re trying to be twenty-five”
- Joe Gillis
“No one leaves…
…A star. That’s what makes one a star”
- Norma Desmond
“Audiences don’t know…
…Somebody sits down and writes a picture; they think the actors make it up as they go along”
- Joe Gillis
“Hog-eye,…
…Turn that light back where it belongs”
- Demille
You know, this floor used to be…
…Wood but i had it changed. Valentino said there’s nothing like tile for the tango”
- Norma
“I made her a star…
…I cannot let her be destroyed”
-Max
“The perfect setting for a silent movie queen…
…Poor devil. Still waving proudly to a parade which had long since passed her by”
-Joe Gillis
“Look at this street…
…All cardboard, all hollow, all phoney. All done with mirrors”
- Betty
