Permanent success cannot be achieved except by incessant intellectual labour, always inspired by the ideal.

Energy creates energy. It is by spending myself that I become rich.

It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.

Art is not about something, Art is something

Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.

We ought to hate very rarely, as it is too fatiguing; remain indifferent to a great deal, forgive often and never forget.

[When asked at age 79 why her Paris apartment was located up many flights of stairs at the top of the building:] It's the only way I can still make the hearts of men beat faster.

He who is incapable of feeling strong passions, of being shaken by anger, of living in every sense of the word, will never be a good actor.

To be a good actor... it is necessary to have a firmly tempered soul, to be surprised at nothing, to resume each minute the laborious task that has barely just been finished.

Oscar Wilde: 'Do you mind if I smoke?' Sarah Bernhardt: 'I don't care if you burn.'

Legend remains victorious in spite of history.

When you're way too real, fake people be like: "You're a trip. I want somebody with real game (lies).

Everything that we have in actual fact does not belong to us, but to God.

Let them say what they wish behind your back. You need only be strong enough that they don't say it to your face.

Failure isn't an option. I've erased the word 'fear' from my vocabulary, and I think when you erase fear, you can't fail.

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.

Everything I love about America is fragile.

No man is born without faults.

There's a lot of fear-mongering about "losing control" of your brand online, when, in fact, you've got control over as much as you always have: how you present your business and how you act.

The studios have their list of five actresses and whether they're right or wrong for a role doesn't matter. It's how much money their last movie made.