“Norma Desmond: You heard him. I'm a star.
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.
Norma Desmond: The greatest star of them all.”
More from Charles Brackett
“Never ask a big man for a small favor.”
“I'm walking here! I'm walking here!”
“I am big! It's the pictures that got small.”
“All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up.”