I also won one from the emperor of Japan, with a prize for the arts. That's important.

I don't know what they'll say when I die. I don't give a damn, but they'll probably cry.

If you do two versions of a film, they should be identical. With the same frames and settings.

It's nice to know that people appreciate and respect you.

I think you never forget your childhood, whether it was happy or unhappy.

A lot of people are upset that I'm not working. They say it's a disgrace.

But I still always felt the absence of a mother.

For people to understand me when I travel, I speak with my hands.

Well, you know, I'm much older than I look.

I was very nervous at the beginning of Hotel du Nord.

Well, I always run the risk of falling on my face, which has in fact happened.

Let's not cry about it, shall we, Marcy? Let's pray about it instead. A Passion Most Pure

The present is the necessary product of all the past the necessary cause of all the future.

A republic of this kind, able to withstand an external force, may support itself without any internal corruptions. The form of this society prevents all manner of inconveniences.

When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.

Violence existed before our music was even suggested.

I'm willing to throw my body in front of the bus to stop bad ideas.

All ignorance is the lack of love.

Some days confidence shrinks to the size of a pea, and the backbone feels like a feather. We want to be somewhere else, and don't know where - want to be someone else and don't know who.

Modern instruments were designed to throw sound all in one direction.

Buddy Rich is one of a kind; he's a genius, and that's all there is to it.