Cheating on a quiz show? That's sort of like plagiarizing a comic strip.

I should in fairness add that my taste in music is reputedly deplorable.

The Actor should make you forget the existence of author and director, and even forget the actor.

I decided a long time ago I didn't want to be a star personality and live my life out in public. I don't think it's a good idea to wave personality about like a flag and become labeled.

Oh, I suppose my wife and I will open a bottle of champagne with another couple.

A book is worth a few francs; we Germans can afford to destroy those. We all may not appreciate artistic merit, but cash value is another matter.

Privacy is not negotiable.

As you get older, the more you know, so the more nervous you become. The risks are much bigger.

I found at this point that effective acting wasn't what I wanted to do, that I didn't want to make effects, that I wanted, as it were, to leave an impression of a particular kind of human being.

It isn't difficult to leave King Lear or Macbeth, but once you have gone back to yourself, you want it to be the same self you have always been.

Enthusiasm is life.

It's because you're scared that there's danger.But could she manage not to be scared anymore?

If love and death did not exist, tears would not exist as well!

Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.

If by chance people would still offer me roles, I'd still like to do them. But if not, that's OK.

Not everybody paints what the public will pay for. The method in which an artist receives money is nobody's business, what matters is that paintings are produced.

Pot came first when I was young. But I did the work. It wasn't a battle of what came first. They went together like "love and marriage, horse and carriage!"

Hopefully, my tears are worth something to the outside world.

As if true pride Were not also humble!

Alone, Alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide wide sea! And never saint took pity on My soul in agony