A kiss is the natures way to stop a conversation, when the words are superfluous

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.

I won't do this movie because I don't believe the love story," she told Selznick. "The heroine is an intellectual woman, and an intellectual woman simply can't fall in love so deeply.

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

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

I can do everything with ease on the stage, whereas in real life I feel too big and clumsy. So I didn't choose acting. It chose me.

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