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.

I'm only interested in two kinds of people, those who can entertain me and those who can advance my career.

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

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.

Time is shortening. But every day that I challenge this cancer and survive is a victory for me.

It's not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.

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.