Norma Desmond Quotes

9 quotes from 8 authors

Thinking of a faded screen goddess whose life feels like a performance, these nine quotes expose the clash of fame and fading. One speaker confesses never watching his own movies, feeling like Norma; another likens her to tragic icons like Judy Garland. See Hollywood Icons and Classic Film Stars for richer collections.

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I didn't want to spend the rest of my life playing Norma Desmond over and over again.

Gloria Swanson

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I'm not someone like Norma Desmond who's harking back to her younger days.

Winona Ryder

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Many years ago, I had the pleasure of editing a book by Joan Crawford, who, like Norma Desmond, was still a big…

Michael Korda

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I haven't watched anything I've been in since I've done it. I have never put in a movie at home that I've…

Helen Hunt

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Right now I'm just thinking about school and trying to get those grades and keep them up! In case I become a…

Anna Chlumsky

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I was keenly aware that I didn't want to draw on too many typically doomed aspects of the fated singer. Whether it's…

Rufus Wainwright

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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…

Gloria Swanson

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“If all histories have a period known as The Golden Age, somewhere between The Beginning and The End, I suppose those Sundays…

Marisha Pessl

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“Michael Heseltine, a wild-haired visionary, Klaus Kinski to Margaret's Thatcher's Werner Herzog, pushed Docklands across the Thames to the East Greenwich Peninsula.…

Iain Sinclair

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