I don't worry about it because we are all growing old. If I were the only one I would worry. But we're all in the same boat, and all of my friends are coming with me. We all go toward old age. How many years left we don't know. We just have to accept it.

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

my life has been wonderful. I have done what I felt like. I was given courage and I was given adventure and that has carried me along. And then also a sense of humor and a little bit of common sense. It has been a very rich life.

Happiness is good health and a bad memory.

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

It's not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.

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