Life Quote by Gloria Swanson

So they were turning, after all - those cameras. Life, which can be strangely merciful, had taken pity on Norma Desmond. The dream she…

— Gloria Swanson

“I see now that when Norma flowered in our garden I became a weed, allowed to exist only where I would not be seen,…

— Daniel Keyes

“Since he has been home, he has felt unusually tender about his wife and guilty over his long absences. But he can’t tell what…

— Bobbie Ann Mason

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

— Rufus Wainwright

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

— Anna Chlumsky

“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. The Millennium…

— Iain Sinclair

“So Norma’s message was that happiness takes hard work. It should be approached like a series of homework assignments.”

— Erika Hayasaki

“Norma would witness many more deaths of all varieties, but she never forgot that first one, its serenity, its peacefulness.”

— Erika Hayasaki

“ADULTHOOD, NORMA BELIEVED, is about giving back and passing lessons on to the next generation, so that the virtues you work so hard to…

— Erika Hayasaki

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

— Marisha Pessl

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

— Michael Korda

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

— Winona Ryder