The Austrians are brilliant people. They made the world believe that Hitler was a German and Beethoven an Austrian.

What critics call dirty in our pictures, they call lusty in foreign films.

I'm not happy. I'm not happy at all.

If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.

I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut.

Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.

After so many drive-in waitresses becoming movie stars, there has been this real drought, when along come class; somebody who actually went to school, can spell, maybe even plays the piano. She may be a wispy, thin little thing, but when you see that girl, you know you're really in the presence of something. In that league there's only ever been Garbo, and the other Hepburn, and maybe Bergman. It's a rare quality, but boy, do you know when you've found it.