All a woman needs is a good bath, clean clothes, and for her hair to be combed. These things she can do herself. I very seldom go to the hairdresser, but when I do, I just marvel.

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.

The sweetness of prayer is the prosperity of the soul.

A viler evil than to murder a man, is to sell him suicide as an act of virtue.

Drama drama drama. The public wants it, so let them get the whole ugly mess. Why not?

I realized that I was more of a sprinter than a marathon man. With a long, long project, I get bored easily.

My M.O. over the years is that I make things better, where people give me that freedom.

If you fail to take advantage of your enemies' collapse, they may recover.

All human beings are born with unique gifts. The healthy functioning community depends on realizing the capacity to develop each gift.

Brahms stayed an extra day to hear my [Fifth] Symphony and was very kind ... I like his honesty and open-mindedness. Neither he nor the players liked the finale, which I also think rather horrible.

I find myself looking around for other new, interesting opportunities to dive into.

Now to what...? How we teach people to make choices and the things they're going to make choices over - that is culturally learned.