When I was very young I wanted to be a professional horseback rider. Then I wanted to be a pop singer. Then I wanted to be a psychiatrist. Then I wanted to be a movie director.

I don't see it as a form of healing, because if you have wounds that are bleeding I don't think acting will ever get them to stop. But I find acting is a form of illumination.

It's a very difficult thing for people to accept, seeing women act out anger on the screen. We're more accustomed to seeing men expressing rage and women crying.

I was just glad to be going to work again.

I just want to tell stories that have an impact on people. Somebody needs to have an impact because people are lost. People are really lost.

I've made some great movies. 'Risky Business' still stands up. It's timeless. They study that film in film school.

I have this very strange sensitive skin. If I put anything on it but this one product, it erupts into a rash.

I grew up in Europe, and I used to like those very slow-moving European films. I've been contaminated by the American TV culture, and I just want things to move faster now.

Everything I thought about acting and having a movie career has changed from what I thought when I started.

I've never had a manager, and I've had various agents, and, fortunately or unfortunately, I've been blessed.

I've never committed to a role without a script.

If I didn't have enormous dreams, I wouldn't have come this far!

Don't let anyone charge you for what God has freely given.

Man, while he loves, is never quite depraved.

Tell the truth about who you are, what you feel, what you want, what you're up to. Tell the truth about that first to yourself and then to anybody else that'll listen.

When I first went to America in 1928, there were spittoons everywhere. I remember avoiding spit as it flew past me in Times Square. Very unattractive.

A lot of scientists act on their beliefs and so do things that look crazy to the rest of us.

If you know why you fall in love, you aren't in love

I'd rather buy something that is relatively depressed than something that is relatively high.

An aim in life is the only fortune worth the finding; and it is not to be found in foreign lands, but in the heart itself.

Great thoughts in crude, unshapely verse set forth lose half their preciousness, and ever must, unless the diamond with its own rich dust be cut and polished, it seems little worth.