A world without leopards, well, who would want to live in it?

I think when you’re young you should be a lot with yourself and your sufferings. Then one day you get out where the sun shines and the rain rains and the snow snows and it all comes together.

I wonder about prisoners. They're told, "You are free, you are innocent, you can go anywhere." I'm sure they usually feel nothing. They don't burst into tears or hysterics or joy or "I told you so." It's nothing. To be on the straight path isn't a bloody thing. It's just ordinary.

Too much good taste can be boring

Naturally, I’ve always been mad about clothes. You don’t get born in Paris to forget about clothes for a minute.

There was a time when it was considered vulgar and unnecessary to pursue money, but today anyone who doesn't believe in money must be out of their minds!

Power has got to be the most intoxicating thing in the world—and of all forms of power the most intoxicating is fame.