The theater was my mother and my father.

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

Until 45 I can play a woman in love. After 55 I can play grandmothers. But between those ten years, it is difficult for an actress.

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

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

when one never speaks, one has nothing to say because one has too much to say.

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