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.

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

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.

By repetition, each lie becomes an irreversible fact upon which other lies are constructed.

Time is what prevents everything from happening at once.

Were we a rational society, a virtue of which we have rarely been accused, we would husband our oil and gas resources.

Selfless action is a source of strength.

Conductors don't suffer, they are part of the performance.

I don’t write things to benefit the world. If it happens that they do, swell. I didn’t set out to do that. I set out to have a hell of a lot of fun.

I've discovered special makeup by a company called M.A.C. You could wear it on the surface of the sun and it wouldn't move.

It doesn't matter if it's black-and-white. If a movie has a story that is filled with emotion, you can have as much pleasure, and it's very good for cinema.

To my father, business was the highest calling, but to my mother, medicine was the top profession.

In Success you deserve it and in defeat, you need it.