I've never sought success in order to get fame and money; it's the talent and the passion that count in success.

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

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

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

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

I won't do this movie because I don't believe the love story," she told Selznick. "The heroine is an intellectual woman, and an intellectual woman simply can't fall in love so deeply.

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