I think I made essential a mistake in staying in movies, because I - but it's a mistake I can't regret, because it's like saying, 'I shouldn't have stayed married to that woman, but I did because I love her.'

I love moving around from town to town. I never got on a train in my life without my spirits rising.

Living in the lap of luxury isn't bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up.

I was spoiled in a very strange way as a child, because everybody told me, from the moment I was able to hear, that I was absolutely marvelous, and I never heard a discouraging word for years, you see. I didn't know what was ahead of me.

n Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.

The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.

I discovered at the age of six that everything was a phony, worked with mirrors. Since then, I've always wanted to be a magician.