So they were turning, after all those cameras. Life, which can be strangely merciful, had taken pity on Norma Desmond. The dream she had clung to so desperately had enfolded her. Norma You see, this is my life. It always will be (In a whisper) There's nothing else just us and the cameras and those wonderful people out there in the dark. All right, Mr. De Mille, I'm ready for my close-up.
Quotes about norma (13 Quotes)
Joe You used to be in silent pictures. You used to be big. Norma (bristling) I am big. It's the pictures that got small. Joe I knew there was something wrong with them.
And I appreciated it very much. To have the opportunity to work for Lamar and Norma Hunt and work with Carl and these people I love very much has been a real, real bonus for me.
My manager, Norma, was trying to get me to write it for at least 10 years and being the reclusive person I am, I wanted people to judge me for what they saw on the television, on the films or on the stage. And what I did apart from that was my own affair. So to write my autobiography was, to me, an anathema.
Anyone can get on a QUANGO providing they are intimate with a Tory MP, so that rules out Norma Major.
We all got emails from Norma, saying be prepared, the camp will be tough. So the party is definitely over.
I didn't pay much attention to the whistles and whoops, in fact, I didn't quite hear them. I was full of a strange feeling, as if I were two people. One of them was Norma Jeane from the orphanage who belonged to nobody the other was someone whose name I didn't know. But I knew where she belonged she belonged to the ocean and the sky and the whole world.
It was a scurrilous attack. It was the dark side of Spike. And Norma said to me, Do you want that to happen to you when you're dead' And I said, no.
I kept driving past the theatre with my name on the marquee. Was I excited. I wished they were using 'Norma Jeane' so that all the kids at the home and schools who never noticed me could see it.
I didn't want to spend the rest of my life playing Norma Desmond over and over again.
I feel that in my novel I'm trying to re-address that imbalance and allow people to see that Norma Jeane was quite sensitive and intelligent, ... She read a great deal, she tried to write poetry. She was hoping to be a serious actress. But in a sense, it was too late because the American public just wanted the stereotype from her.
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 when I grow up, I can have something to fall back on!
It's part of the mythology, which is The place didn't exist before I got here. Back home, you were Norma Jean. In California, it's Marilyn Monroe.