See, I believe that it is not true that different races and nations are alike. I'm profoundly convinced that that's a total lie. I think people are different. Sardinians, for example, have stubby little fingers. Bosnians have short necks.

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.

A bad word from a colleague can darken a whole day. We need encouragement a lot more than we admit, even to ourselves.

The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful.

The director is the most overrated artist in the world. He is the only artist who, with no talent whatsoever, can be a success for 50 years without his lack of talent ever being discovered.

It isn't worth it. No money is worth this... [walks out]

I don't like television when it gets near to photographed plays.