You’re beautful. Yes you are, you’re very very beautiful. Extremely beautiful.

If you want a happy ending, it just depends on where you close the book!

Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.

We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for a moment that we’re not alone.

My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.

Our works in stone, in paint, in print, are spared, some of them, for a few decades or a millennium or two, but everything must finally fall in war, or wear away into the ultimate...

You know what the fellow said – in Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they...

Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that’s printed about him.

I don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.

I dont believe in learning from other peoples pictures. I think you should learn from your own interior vision of things and discover, as I say, Innocently, as though there had never been anybody.

A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows – his own.

There are three intolerable things in life – cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women…

In my opinion, there are two things that can absolutely not be carried to the screen: the realistic presentation of the sexual act and praying to God.

If there hadn’t been women we’d still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.

The absence of limitations is the enemy of art.

I can’t work in a sewer. I come from California.

The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.

What’s happening now is what happened before, and often what’s going to happen again sometime or other