sunset boulevard quotes exam Flashcards
(49 cards)
“Poor dope”
he always wanted a pool. well he got one , the price was just a little too high”
“I’m big
its the pictures that got small”
“Me, me
they want to see me, Norma Desmond
“She was still
sleepwalking along the giddy heights of her lost career”
“The plain fact was that
she was afraid of that world outside, afraid that it would remind her that time had passed”
“Poor devil
still waving proudly to a parade which had long since passed her by”
“I felt caught
like the cigarette in that contraption on her finger”
“there’s nothing wrong
with being fifty. Not unless you’re trying to be twenty-five”
“Great
stars have great pride”
“I’ll
do it again; I’ll do it again.”
“De Mille
always said I was his greatest star”
“I have never looked better in my life
…because I have never been as happy in my life”
“Something was the matter alright.
I was thinking about that girl of Artie’s, Miss Schafer.”
“We’ve made
12 pictures together, his greatest successes”
“I’ve waited
20 years for this call. Now De Mille can wait until I’m good and ready.”
“Tell him without me he
wouldn’t have a job, because without me there would be no paramount pictures.”
“She must be
a million years old”
“I can give her the brush.
30 million fans have given her the brush, isn’t that enough”
“A dozen press agents
working overtime, can do terrible things to the human spirit.”
“did you see them
Did you see how they came”
“You know crazy things happen
in this business Norma. I hope you haven’t lost your sense of humour.”
“Like an athlete
training for the Olympic games”
“She was absolutely determined
to be ready for those cameras. The cameras that would never return.”
Feeding her more and more lies,
getting herself ready for a picture. What happens when she finds out?”
