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

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.

[On Alfred Hitchcock:] Hitch is a gentleman farmer who raises goose flesh.

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.

I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say.

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.

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.