I'm a concert pianist, that's a pretentious way of saying I'm unemployed at the moment.

I could never have a mistress, because I couldn't bear to tell the story of my life all over again.

Ballet is the fairies' baseball.

When I appeared before the draft board examiner during World War II, he asked me if I thought I could kill. "I don't know about strangers," I replied, "but friends, certainly."

[Madame Nhu was] the Sandra Dee of South Vietnam. If I were cast on a desert island with her, I would quickly make friends with the natives.

Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath.

There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.