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

I made so many films which were more important, but the only one people ever want to talk about is that one with [Humphrey Bogart].

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

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

The theater was my mother and my father.

I hate Sunday, I can't wait for Monday so I can go back to work again.

I don't worry about it because we are all growing old. If I were the only one I would worry. But we're all in the same boat, and all of my friends are coming with me. We all go toward old age. How many years left we don't know. We just have to accept it.