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Joe Gillis:
[narrating] Well, this is where you came in, back at that pool again, the one I always wanted. It's dawn now and they must have photographed me a thousand times. Then they got a couple of pruning hooks from the garden and fished me out... ever so gently. Funny, how gentle people get with you once you're dead.
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William Holden
(as Joe Gillis)
in
Sunset Boulevard
(1950)
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Gloria Swanson
(as Norma Desmond)
in
Sunset Boulevard
(1950)
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Joe Gillis:
[voice-over] The whole place seemed to have been stricken with a kind of creeping paralysis - out of beat with the rest of the world, crumbling apart in slow motion.
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William Holden
(as Joe Gillis)
in
Sunset Boulevard
(1950)
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Joe Gillis:
[voice-over] 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.
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William Holden
(as Joe Gillis)
in
Sunset Boulevard
(1950)
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Joe Gillis:
[who has just has a visit from two men trying to repossess his car]
[narrating] Joe Gillis: I was way ahead of the finance company. I knew they'd be becoming around and I wasn't taking any chances. So I kept it across the street in a parking lot behind Rudy's shoeshine parlour. Rudy never asked any questions about your finances... he'd just look at your heels and know the score.
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William Holden
(as Joe Gillis)
in
Sunset Boulevard
(1950)
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Joe Gillis:
Audiences don't know somebody sits down and writes a picture; they think the actors make it up as they go along.
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William Holden
(as Joe Gillis)
in
Sunset Boulevard
(1950)
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Joe Gillis:
I didn't know you were planning a comeback.
Norma Desmond: I hate that word. It's a return, a return to the millions of people who have never forgiven me for deserting the screen.
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Gloria Swanson
(as Norma Desmond)
in
Sunset Boulevard
(1950)
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Joe Gillis:
I'm not an executive, just a writer.
Norma Desmond: You are, are you? writing words, words, more words! Well, you'll make a rope of words and strangle this business! With a microphone there to catch the last gurgles, and Technicolor to photograph the red, swollen tongues!
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Gloria Swanson
(as Norma Desmond)
in
Sunset Boulevard
(1950)
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Joe Gillis:
May I say that you smell really special?
Betty Schaefer: It must be my new shampoo. Joe Gillis: That's no shampoo. It's more like freshly-laundered linen handkerchiefs, like a brand new automobile.
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William Holden
(as Joe Gillis)
in
Sunset Boulevard
(1950)
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Joe Gillis:
Norma, you're a woman of 50, now grow up. There's nothing tragic about being 50, not unless you try to be 25.
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William Holden
(as Joe Gillis)
in
Sunset Boulevard
(1950)
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