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

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

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

Thank you for your coffee, seignior. I shall miss that when we leave Casablanca.

I thank God who slowly dressed me in a heavy skin, otherwise I would now be dead.

I have grown up alone. I've taken care of myself. I worked, earned money and was independent at 18.

The theater was my mother and my father.