I am just old-fashioned enough to prefer long hair.

If I speak of Vienna it must be in the past tense, as a man speaks of a woman he has loved and who is dead.

In Hollywood - in Hollywood, you're as good as your last picture.

Bobbed hair makes women look uniform. They lack individuality.

Since that first showing of Foolish Wives I have seemed to walk through vast crowds of people, their white American faces turned towards me in stern reproof.

I was reared in an atmosphere where a great deal of attention was paid to women's hairdressing.

As soon as I had seen Fay Wray and spoken with her for a few minutes, I knew I had found the right girl.

I could not work with a girl who did not have a spiritual quality.

I would like to have you quote me, Erich von Stroheim, as having said on this day of this month of this year this one thing: you Americans are living on baby food.

Because I select my players from a feeling that comes to me when I am with them, a certain sympathy you might call it, or a vibration that exists between us that convinces me they are right.

Sometimes you deal with the devil not because you want to, but because if you don't, someone else will.

Valuing a writer only for their diversity, but not their humanity or talent – that’s tokenism.

Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow-citizens.

Beware the things of this world that can mean everything or nothing.

When you are in unrelenting, excruciating and debilitating pain that never goes away for years on end, your life is over.

the blessings of matrimony, like those of poverty, belong rather to philosophy than reality.

When Time who steals our years away Shall steal our pleasures too, The mem'ry of the past will stay, And half our joys renew.

Perspective is a moment in time that cannot be fully appreciated until that moment has passed.

The value of a business is the cash it's going to produce in the future.