I adore Chicago. It is the pulse of America.

I refuse the title of artist to those who owe their reputations to a physical deformity. I regard them as buffoons.

Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.

Me pray? Never! I'm an atheist.

[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.

Permanent success cannot be achieved except by incessant intellectual labour, always inspired by the ideal.

The actor is too prone to exaggerate his powers; he wants to play Hamlet when his appearance is more suitable to King Lear.