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

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.

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

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.

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.

I do not know how to kiss, or I would kiss you. Where do the noses go?

when one never speaks, one has nothing to say because one has too much to say.

There's nothing like a love song to give you a good laugh.

I always felt guilty. My whole life.

In Hollywood, you're never any better than your last picture.

I can do everything with ease on the stage, whereas in real life I feel too big and clumsy. So I didn't choose acting. It chose me.

I hate Sunday, I can't wait for Monday so I can go back to work again.