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.

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.

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

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.

She saw why teachers get very old and stay very young. For there is no closer probing of the mind--not even in psychoanalysis.

I don’t believe that, " I said, and he raised his brow beneath his shaggy hair. "I never asked you to.” (Jessica)

You are not just waiting in vain. There is a purpose behind every delay.

Maintain a good balance. A personal life adds dimensions to your professional life and vice versa. It helps nurture creativity through a deeper understanding of yourself.

Even as fog continues to lie in the valleys, so does ancient sin cling to the low places, the depressions in the world consciousness.

Republicans fighting back against changes Obama made means those changes are important, as with most of the major progress in American history.

If some of the recovery money had gone to cities instead of states, the urban population, read "Black" and "Brown," would be better off with recovery jobs.

"So you're a dom, huh? Nice." I stabbed my pancakes again. "Kinky." "You're the one who ties people up, babe."

I don't want to be George Lucas and go back after the fact.

I can only think of one experience which might exceed in interest a few hours spent under water, and that would be a journey to Mars.