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Joe Gillis Quotes

Total quotes: 8
“Audiences don't know somebody sits down and writes a picture; they think the actors make it up as they go along.”
— Joe Gillis, Sunset Boulevard
Tagged: screenwriters, audiences, actors
“Betty Schaefer: Don't you sometimes hate yourself?

Joe Gillis: Constantly.”
— Joe Gillis, Sunset Boulevard
Tagged: Self-hatred
“Betty Schaefer: I've been hoping to run into you.

Joe Gillis: What for? To recover that knife you stuck in my back?”
— Joe Gillis, Sunset Boulevard
Tagged: Betrayal, Backstabber
“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.”
— Joe Gillis, Sunset Boulevard
Tagged: Sleepwalking, faded glory
“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.”
— Joe Gillis, Sunset Boulevard
Tagged: Cameras, Dreams
“The poor dope—he always wanted a pool. Well, in the end, he got himself a pool.”
— Joe Gillis, Sunset Boulevard
Tagged: dead, Swimming Pool, Irony
“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.”
— Joe Gillis, Sunset Boulevard
Tagged: pool boy, dead
“This is New Year's Eve. How about living it up a little?”
— Joe Gillis, Sunset Boulevard
Tagged: New Year's Eve
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