[When asked at age 79 why her Paris apartment was located up many flights of stairs at the top of the building:] It's the only way I can still make the hearts of men beat faster.

If I have a foreign accent—which I much regret—it is cosmopolitan, but not Teutonic. I am a daughter of the great Jewish race, and my somewhat uncultivated language is the outcome of our enforced wanderings.

For the theatre one needs long arms... an artiste with short arms can never make a fine gesture.

Energy creates energy. It is by spending myself that I become rich.

Although all new ideas are born in France, they are not readily adopted there. It seems that they must first commence to prosper in a foreign country.

Those who know the joys and miseries of celebrities when they have passed the age of forty know how to defend themselves.

It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.