AFI #007 Gloria Swanson as Norma Desmond from Sunset Boulevard (1950)

And I promise you I'll never desert you again because after Salome we'll make another picture and another picture. You see, this is my life! It always will be! Nothing else! Just us, the cameras, and those wonderful people out there in the dark!... All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up.

- Gloria Swanson as Norma Desmond from Sunset Boulevard (1950)

The bolded line is ranked #7 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.

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