In Hollywood - in Hollywood, you're as good as your last picture.

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.

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.

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.

Folly is a child of power.

Neither happiness nor grief are everlasting in this life - but one of the two is everlasting in the next. Which one do you want?

Whatever white people do not know about Negroes reveals, precisely and inexorably, what they do not know about themselves.

The request of industry to government is as modest as that of Diogenes to Alexander: Get out of my light.

If you try to bring 'teen drama,' you end up doing nothing but pouting.

He shook his head and eyed Roarke. "You don't look like a cop." "I'm not and thank you for noticing.

Be persistent with your disturbance until you get face to face with the Lord himself. Don't deify common sense.

The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.

Big Poppa Pump is your hook up, and the next heavyweight championship of the world!

To be called a sovereign nation, a nation has to be able to control its own borders. It is controlling your own destiny in a way, and we don't control our own borders.