Cancer victims who don't accept their fate, who don't learn to live with it, will only destroy what little time they have left.

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

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.

I don't think anyone has the right to intrude in your life, but they do. I would like people to separate the actress and the woman.

In Paris, when the picture came out [Casablanca] they weren't too pleased with it. They didn't like the political point of view. The picture was taken off immediately and was never sold to television. A while ago it was brought in and opened in five theatres in Paris, as a new movie. They had a big gala opening where I appeared and people were absolutely crazy about it.

A kiss is a secret told to the mouth instead of the ear; kisses are the messengers of love and tenderness.