If you took acting away from me, I'd stop breathing.

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.

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

There are advantages to being a star though - you can always get a table in a full restaurant.

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

Give me an hour and I'll make a lifetime out of it.

I have had my different husbands, my families. I am fond of them all and I visit them all. But deep inside me there is the feeling that I belong to show business.