I would tell anyone who wants something from someone else to feign not wanting it. People are perverse. If you show great affection to them, they'll run the other way.

Because you don't live near a bakery doesn't mean you have to go without cheesecake.

The ladder of success in Hollywood is usually a press agent, actor, director, producer, leading man; and you are a star if you sleep with each of them in that order. Crude, but true.

Films have a certain place in a certain time period. Technology is forever.

I was born an only child in Vienna, Austria. My father found hours to sit by me by the library fire and tell fairy stories.

Hope & curiosity about the future seemed better than guarantees. The unknown was always so attractive to me...and still is.

Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.

I am a very good shot. I have hunted for every kind of animal. But I would never kill an animal during mating season.

I don't fear death because I don't fear anything I don't understand. When I start to think about it, I order a massage and it goes away.

I'm a sworn enemy of convention. I despise the conventional in anything, even the arts.

All creative people want to do the unexpected.

Life wastes nothing. Over and over again every molecule that has ever been is gathered up by the hand of life to be reshaped into yet another form.p 259

An attractive woman becomes beautiful when she's happy and in love.

Two things a man cannot hide: that he is drunk and that he is in love.

Your passion is such that you pursue it for free because experiencing it is its own reward.

I knew it. I knew it. Born in a hotel room - and God damn it - died in a hotel room.

What is life if not a gamble?

People expect me to do the classics, and it is a lot like playing a favorite song.

In the house of lovers, the music never stops, the walls are made of songs & the floor dances

Human rights are not worthy of the name if they do not protect the people we don't like as well as those we do.

Oh, I am in love with life!