Until 45 I can play a woman in love. After 55 I can play grandmothers. But between those ten years, it is difficult for an actress.

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.

Getting old is like climbing a mountain; you get a little out of breath, but the view is much better!

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 was the shyest human ever invented, but I had a lion inside me that wouldn't shut up.

Until 45 I can play a woman in love. After 55 I can play grandmothers. But between those ten years, it is difficult for an actress.