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.

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.

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

A kiss is the natures way to stop a conversation, when the words are superfluous

One is never too old for romance.

I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say.

I'm only interested in two kinds of people, those who can entertain me and those who can advance my career.

A kiss is a secret told to the mouth instead of the ear; kisses are the messengers of love and tenderness.

A kiss is a lovely trick to stop speech.

I regret the things I didn't do, not what I did.

Give me an hour and I'll make a lifetime out of it.