A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.

Because you don't live near a bakery doesn't mean you have to go without cheesecake.

The ladder of success in Hollywood is usually a press agent, actor, director, producer, leading man; and you are a star if you sleep with each of them in that order. Crude, but true.

Films have a certain place in a certain time period. Technology is forever.

I was born an only child in Vienna, Austria. My father found hours to sit by me by the library fire and tell fairy stories.

Hope & curiosity about the future seemed better than guarantees. The unknown was always so attractive to me...and still is.

Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.

I am a very good shot. I have hunted for every kind of animal. But I would never kill an animal during mating season.

I don't fear death because I don't fear anything I don't understand. When I start to think about it, I order a massage and it goes away.

I'm a sworn enemy of convention. I despise the conventional in anything, even the arts.

All creative people want to do the unexpected.

If someone isn't what others want them to be, the other become angry.

Ma had been very fashionable, before she married Pa, and a dressmaker had made her clothes.

To be an artist, you're basically a crazy person. You're extremely narcissistic and emotionally expressive. The idea that the world needs to listen to you is an insane thought.

There's an old saying that when it gets tough the tough get going. You have to work your way through these things.

There is nowhere in the world where sleep is so deep as in the libraries of the House of Commons.

Radio has no future." "X-rays are clearly a hoax". "The aeroplane is scientifically impossible.

If you don't vote, you're going to get a spanking.

He was screaming like my wife.

When you exercise your will power you release the power of life energy - not when you merely wish passively to be able to obtain an objective.

Strange, when you ask anyone's advice you see yourself what is right.