I only want to protect animals from barbarous, cruel, inhuman and backward rituals.

I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals.

I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful, much adulated, very famous and very unhappy.

Fashion may not be a weapon of the woman but at least it gives her the ammunition.

When I love, I do it without counting. I give myself entirely. And each time, it is the grand love of my life.

Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.

A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.

What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.

I'm a girl from a good family who was very well brought up. One day I turned my back on it all and became a bohemian.

If I could do anything about the way people behave towards each other, I would, but since I can't, I'll stick to animals.

I can't do the same thing every night, the same gestures... it's like putting on dirty panties every day.

So resolute is the world to despise anything which carries with it an air of simplicity.

Are there memories left that are safe from the clutches of phony anniversaries?

In all earnestness I asked myself what kind of world I had stumbled into.

People always think I’m dainty when they meet me, but I’m really not. I’m very German – we’re not made out of sugar.

The child is not a prisoner of its inheritance; it holds its inheritance as a new creation which its future actions will unfold.

It is possible to learn all about the mysteries of the Bible and never be affected by it in one's soul. Great knowledge is not enough.

Making mistakes is human ... repeating 'em is too.

My goal is to leave the producer with so many good takes, that he or she has a tough time deciding on the best one.

The price of apparent happiness and enjoyment is the neglect of the spontaneous active energies of the acting members.

With a mind not diseased, a holy life is a life of hope; and at the end of it, death is a great act of hope.