"It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying."

"I made so many films which were more important, but the only one people ever want to talk about is that one with Bogart."

"I can do everything with ease on the stage, whereas in real life I feel too big and clumsy. So I didn't choose acting. It chose me."

"A kiss is a secret told to the mouth instead of the ear; kisses are the messengers of love and tenderness."

"If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress."

"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody."

"The hedonistic lifestyle is difficult to achieve when you're still carrying your own gear. Trust me that you don't feel glamorous with a 60-pound amp in your arms it's a lot less sexy than toting a vodka gimlet and impossible to do in heels."

"The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle."