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.

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.

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

I am just old-fashioned enough to prefer long hair.

Bobbed hair makes women look uniform. They lack individuality.

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.

Such kings can destroy a world, just as easily as they can build one.

To keep your conscience at peace and your respect at high, don't follow those orders which make no sense.

We have tried to run from our love, but our souls crave this magic.

You're saying, ' he said, weighing each word, 'that we should send Carrot away to be a duck among humans because Bjorn Stronginthearm is my uncle.

We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We need a refuge even though we may never need to go there. We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope.

What I did in the book [Today Matters] is I tried to help a person make their day - every day - their masterpiece.

It seems like bands have stopped making timeless, great rock albums like they did back in the day.

I know everything that has happened to everybody in the past, everything that is happening now and everything that will happen in the future.

What is light, if Sylvia be not seen? What is joy if Sylvia be not by?