I refuse the title of artist to those who owe their reputations to a physical deformity. I regard them as buffoons.

Energy creates energy. It is by spending myself that I become rich.

It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.

Art is not about something, Art is something

Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.

We ought to hate very rarely, as it is too fatiguing; remain indifferent to a great deal, forgive often and never forget.

Permanent success cannot be achieved except by incessant intellectual labour, always inspired by the ideal.

[When asked at age 79 why her Paris apartment was located up many flights of stairs at the top of the building:] It's the only way I can still make the hearts of men beat faster.

He who is incapable of feeling strong passions, of being shaken by anger, of living in every sense of the word, will never be a good actor.

To be a good actor... it is necessary to have a firmly tempered soul, to be surprised at nothing, to resume each minute the laborious task that has barely just been finished.

Oscar Wilde: 'Do you mind if I smoke?' Sarah Bernhardt: 'I don't care if you burn.'

We drink one another's health and spoil our own.

Your only shame is to have shame.

The weather is beautiful in Toulon and the girls are beautiful and I don't want to leave.

I didn't completed my University Education

Women are one half of society which gives birth to the other half so it is as if they are the entire society.

I don't want to sound pompous, but I really think your gender doesn't necessarily dominate your sexual activity.

The audience likes their emotions to be touched. They want to laugh and cry and feel good.

I favor parking a few miles from the office and walking to work. You get the benefit of exercise and besides it is easier to get a parking space.

I feel I should be trying to complete my life, whatever completing a life means.

I'm not a prophet or a teacher, I just ask questions. I don't think a writer should be a teacher, but should know how to pose the questions and explain the problems.