... acquired tastes are the mark of the man of leisure.

It is better to break one's heart than to do nothing with it.

It's no use to worry about what people think. I never do. I used to. But when I saw that they'd really rather think wrong than right I gave it up.

They are emotional gluttons, both of them. They gobbled up every sensation they could extract from marriage, and now they are seeing if separation won't provide them with a few more.

Dare to think the unimaginable, imagine the unthinkable, dream of that which will never happen, yet continue to aspire and to test the limits of your very being and those around you.

We have a Boesendorfer piano that I play every day. It keeps my brain and my fingers active.

At the time I belonged to the socialist party, and Hitler came to power.

It's the easiest thing in the world to know God's will. You just wait and see what happens, and that's it.

Ask yourself: What forms the decisions you make? What is it that gnaws at you? What are your crucible moments?

Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection.

The covetous person lives as if the world were made altogether for him, and not he for the world.

I have drive, for sure. You have to. It's a tough business; there are a lot of actresses and not a lot of great roles. I don't want to complain because I'm so grateful.

Desire is like the shadow caused by the morning sun; it gets longer when you run to catch it.

The moguls are driven by their respective desires for profit - period.