It's very frustrating making a picture in Paris. We work hard all day at the studio to get a love scene just right. Then, on my way home, I see couples on every street corner doing it better.

A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it.

A sense of humor is good for you. Have you ever heard of a laughing hyena with heart burn?

No one party can fool all of the people all of the time; that's why we have two parties

I always like to go to Washington D.C. It gives me a chance to visit my money.

My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others. Come to think of it, why do we have to wait for Christmas to do that?

I have seen what a laugh can do. It can transform almost unbearable tears into something bearable, even hopeful.

When she started to play, Steinway came down personally and rubbed his name off the piano.

The good news is that Jesus is coming back. The bad news is that he's really pissed off.

The trees in Siberia are miles apart, that is why the dogs are so fast.

I don't do a lot of political jokes. Too many are getting elected.

As a human being, we have unlimited power and unlimited abilities, we just have to look for it.

Freedom is difficult…but we have never had to put a wall up to keep the people in.

The English never abolish anything. They put it in cold storage.

Chocolate is not cheating! After a salty meal, you need a little bit of sweet. This is living, not cheating.

You call yourself what you want to call yourself. This is the land of the free.

Every natural form is latent within us, originates in the soul whose essence is eternity, whose essence we cannot know but which most often intimates itself to us as the power to love and create.

All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.

For me the best kind of film music is liturgical music. Liturgical music is essentially a million scores for the same film.

If you're on to something but you start repeating it, that's the end of your career.

I just like to look beautiful sometimes.