As soon as I had seen Fay Wray and spoken with her for a few minutes, I knew I had found the right girl.

If I speak of Vienna it must be in the past tense, as a man speaks of a woman he has loved and who is dead.

In Hollywood - in Hollywood, you're as good as your last picture.

I am just old-fashioned enough to prefer long hair.

Bobbed hair makes women look uniform. They lack individuality.

Since that first showing of Foolish Wives I have seemed to walk through vast crowds of people, their white American faces turned towards me in stern reproof.

I was reared in an atmosphere where a great deal of attention was paid to women's hairdressing.

I could not work with a girl who did not have a spiritual quality.

I would like to have you quote me, Erich von Stroheim, as having said on this day of this month of this year this one thing: you Americans are living on baby food.

Because I select my players from a feeling that comes to me when I am with them, a certain sympathy you might call it, or a vibration that exists between us that convinces me they are right.

That loss is common would not makeMy own less bitter, rather more:Too common! Never morning woreTo evening, but some heart did break.

New York City is the place where people come to invent, reinvent, or find the room they need to be who they wish to be.

For whom all winds are quiet as the sun,/ All waters as the shore.

There are atheists and Christians, and there are people in both groups who are a little too heavy-handed.

Hey, rock dude, are you destroying the house? Causing mayhem? Who’s a ferocious gargoyle? Stoney’s a ferocious gargoyle.

I should have known it. You still have those chocolate-kiss eyes.

I never yet knew the sun to be knocked down and rolled through a mud-puddle; he comes out honor-bright from behind every storm. Let us then take sides with the sun, seeing we have so much leisure.

Who needs action when you got words?

Reforming the social structures which perpetuate poverty and the exclusion of the poor first requires a conversion of mind and heart.

The biggest mistake of my life was taking a military education.