Thank you for your coffee, seignior. I shall miss that when we leave Casablanca.

Condemn me, it does not matter: history will absolve me.

We must establish a new world order based on justice, on equity, and on peace.

It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and a plan of action.

Capitalism has neither the capacity, nor the morality, nor the ethics to solve the problems of poverty.

Until 45 I can play a woman in love. After 55 I can play grandmothers. But between those ten years, it is difficult for an actress.

There are advantages to being a star though - you can always get a table in a full restaurant.

I thank God who slowly dressed me in a heavy skin, otherwise I would now be dead.

Just give the Italians a chance for drama and they take it with both hands.

It's not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.

The theater was my mother and my father.

I don't think anyone has the right to intrude in your life, but they do. I would like people to separate the actress and the woman.

I didn't choose acting. It chose me.

Time is shortening. But every day that I challenge this cancer and survive is a victory for me.

Never again! I can see no reason for marriage - ever at all. I've had it. Three times is enough.

On acting to daughter Isabella Rossellini: Keep it simple. Make a blank face and the music and the story will fill it in.

If you took acting away from me, I'd stop breathing.

I have grown up alone. I've taken care of myself. I worked, earned money and was independent at 18.

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.