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.

In Hollywood, you're never any better than your last picture.

Just give the Italians a chance for drama and they take it with both hands.

Be yourself. The world worships the original.

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

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.

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